UNDATED (AP) - Two Tyler news reporters who have covered the Mineola swingers club trials have been subpoenaed to testify about allegedly dating the state's lead prosecutor in the case.

Thad Davidson is the attorney for Patrick Kelly, who's one of six defendants accused of teaching children as young as 5 to have sex with each other and dance provocatively for crowds at a Mineola club.

Davidson says he plans to ask Tyler Morning Telegraph reporter Casey Knaupp and KLTV reporter Danielle Capper about their relationships with Smith County Assistant District Attorney Joe Murphy. Davidson is fighting to move Kelly's trial from Tyler, which is about 25 miles from Mineola.

Davidson says the reporters' coverage of the case has been biased and has tainted the prospective jury pool in Smith County.

Tyler Morning Telegraph managing editor Dave Berry says he and his staff of editors weren't aware of a relationship between Knaupp and Murphy. But he says the newspaper stands by "the professionalism of our reporter."

Berry says the paper will seek to quash the subpoena at a court hearing today in Tyler. KLTV declined to comment.

A state district judge in Tyler yesterday postponed Kelly's trial amid new allegations that the foster father to the young victims molested other children.

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