FC: Vanessa Leggett, writer jailed since July 20, freed at last

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Also, while we're at it:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20011231/en/potter_book_burning_2.html
New Mexico Church Protests Potter

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) - As hundreds protested nearby, a church group
burned Harry Potter and other books. Jack Brock, the Christ Community
Church founder and pastor, said the books burned Sunday were ``a
masterpiece of satanic deception.'' ``These books teach children how
they can get into witchcraft and become a witch, wizard or warlock,''
Brock said. Members sang ``Amazing Grace'' as they threw Potter books,
plus some other books and magazines, into the fire. Across the street,
protesters chanting ``Stop burning books'' stretched in a line a
quarter of a mile long. [...]

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Politech archive on the case of Vanessa Leggett:
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=leggett

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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/front/1197563

Jailed writer to be freed

Held 5 months for refusal to turn over her research

By ROSANNA RUIZ and DALE LEZON
Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle

Jailed writer Vanessa Leggett will be released this morning after spending 
more than five months in a federal detention center for refusing to turn 
over her research about a 1997 slaying in River Oaks.

Leggett, 33, has been detained since July 20 after she refused to release 
information from confidential sources to a grand jury investigating Robert 
Angleton, a Houston bookie whose wife, Doris, was slain in 1997. [...]

Mike DeGeurin, Leggett's lawyer, was able to spring his client when a 
motion he filed for her immediate release was granted late Thursday by U.S. 
District Judge Melinda Harmon.

The order, which was sealed, requires Leggett to be released by 10 a.m. today.
In his motion, DeGeurin argued that his client could not legally be 
detained after today when the grand jury was set to conclude its 
investigation.

[...]



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