Journalist's phone records excluded from trial

Article Abstract:

A Colorado trial judge in State v. Thill quashed subpoenas served on an television reporter seeking cellular phone records that might identify her confidential police sources in a murder case. The defendant's attorneys had obtained the records directly from AT&T Wireless without the reporter's knowledge. All evidence of the reporter's calls stemming from records procured from AT&T Wireless was to be excluded at trial.

Colorado, Laws, regulations and rules, Telephone, Telephony, Records and correspondence, Third parties (Law)

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Broad subpoenas limited by court rules on trial procedure

Article Abstract:

The Indiana Supreme Court ruled in Indiana v. Milam that the reporter's privilege created by the First Amendment did not protect nonconfidential outtakes from compelled disclosure to criminal defendants. The court qualified this by stating that the state's trial procedure rules limited disclosure of unaired videotape to that of an interview between a reporter and the defendant.

Indiana, Cases, Subpoena

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