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"Judge: Free Press reporter can protect sources."

"Judge: Free Press reporter can protect sources." The Detroit Free Press has a news update that begins, "U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland just ruled that Free Press reporter David Ashenfelter does not have to reveal his sources in a 2004 article about an embattled federal prosecutor. Cleland accepted Ashenfelter's argument that naming his sources would violate Ashenfelter's Fifth Amendment right under the U.S. Constitution to avoid self-incrimination."

The Detroit News has an update headlined "Free Press reporter doesn't have to reveal source, federal judge rules."

And The Associated Press reports that "Judge upholds right of reporter to not ID sources."

Full post as published by How Appealing on April 21, 2009 (boomark / email).