[privacy] Josh Wolf Update: Journalist Loses Request for Rehearing

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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It's no wonder that the U.S. ranking on press freedoms keep
on sliding lower and lower and...

Via The New York Times.

[snip]

A federal appeals court has denied a request for a rehearing from a
freelance video journalist and blogger who has been jailed for three months
for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury investigation of a violent
anticapitalist protest.

The decision Wednesday by a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals means that the blogger, Josh Wolf, could be kept in jail until
July, when the term of the grand jury expires, said his lawyer, Martin
Garbus.

If that happens, Mr. Wolf, who has served 88 days, will be the
longest-incarcerated journalist in recent American history, according to
the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Vanessa Leggett, a
freelance journalist from Houston, served 168 days in 2001 and 2002 for
refusing to surrender information about a murder case.

[snip]

More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/17/us/17blogger.html

- - ferg

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