Former Colorado football player Shilo Sanders is seeking to have the written transcript of his coming bankruptcy trial sealed from public view, along with any exhibits displayed at the trial where Sanders hopes to escape more than $11 million in debt, according to a new case document filed Aug. 3.
The filing says Sanders, son of Colorado football coach Deion Sanders, does not oppose keeping the trial proceedings public but wants to seal any written record of it in large part because the case contains information relating to when Sanders was a minor at age 15.
Attorneys for USA TODAY filed a motion to intervene in the Sanders' bankruptcy case July 22 − a request that seeks greater transparency in this high-profile case after several developments in it recently were conducted in secret, including a pretrial court hearing July 14.
On July 31, Sanders' attorney, Victor Vital, filed his response to that request under seal, keeping its contents from public view. USA TODAY's attorneys, who have access to the response, replied with an Aug. 3 court filing that references what Vital proposed.
USA TODAY's filing notes that Sanders's response does not oppose keeping the Aug. 31 trial proceedings open to the public "but buries the fact that his proposed order would seal the complete trial transcript and any exhibits submitted as evidence at trial."

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