Court rules judge should review notes

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The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that, when balancing the rights of the press and the criminally accused, judges should review a journalist's notes in camera before denying or permitting access. In State v Brenner, the court stated that a defendant need meet only the standard for probable cause when requesting access to a journalist's material, not the standard of clear and convincing evidence. The court also stated that a criminal defendant's right to confront witnesses always outweighs the press's privilege of nondisclosure.

Cases, Confrontation (Criminal law), Confrontation (Law)

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Shield law protects reporter's notes on jailhouse interview: publication of portions of interview does not constitute waiver of privilege

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The Georgia Supreme Court, in In re Keith Paul, ruled that a newspaper reporter did not have to answer interrogatories submitted by the prosecution about the reporter's unpublished interviews with a murder suspect. The prosecution had argued that it needed the information to determine the suspect's mental state and the reporter had waived any claim of privilege he might have made under the state press shield law by identifying the suspect as his source and publishing the contents of the interviews in a newspaper.

Georgia, Interviewing in journalism, Journalistic interviewing

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State high court ducks review of freelancer cases

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The California Supreme Court has declined to review two trial court decisions coming down on different sides of the journalistic shield law's application to free-lance journalists. In People v. Von Villas a free-lance journalist was held to be protected by the state shield law, while in Debber v. Superior Court, the court denied another free-lance journalist the same protection.

Freelance writers

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