Aurora theater shooting judge allows subpoena of Fox News reporter about info "leak"

@BackOffImStarving @DonkeyHotay @vox-populi

The issue of a reporter's privilege came to the forefront of media attention in the case In re Miller, involving reporters Judith "Dick Cheney's Mouthpiece" Miller and Matthew Cooper.

 Miller and Cooper were both served with grand jury subpoenas for testimony and information, including notes and documents pertaining to conversations with specific and all other official sources relating the Plame affair. Both refused to submit to the subpoenas, claiming a reporter’s privilege. The federal district court held both Miller and Cooper in civil contempt of court, and the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the orders of contempt.

Miller and Cooper, in their appeal to the appellate court pleaded several defenses including a First Amendment reporter’s privilege and a common law reporter’s privilege. The appellate court rejected both the First Amendment and common law claims for privilege. The court held Miller and Cooper in civil contempt of court and sentenced both to eighteen months of jail time. The sentence was stayed pending an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

However, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case. Judith Miller began serving the remaining four months of the original eighteen-month sentence on July 6, 2005. Matthew Cooper’s confidential source released him from their confidentiality agreement, so he chose to comply with the subpoena and has agreed to testify before the grand jury

@DonkeyHotay @vox-populi Riley v. City of Chester. I don't see the reporter being able to keep the source confidential.

@vox-populi ... your pathetically false assertion that reporters can't be required to divulge their sources is still an Epic Fail.

@vox-populi ... pathetic retreat from your laughably false assertion that reporters do not have to divulge their sources when subpoenaed by a court of law.

You = Vox Ignorami 

@vox-populi ... then the reporter can rot in jail on contempt charges until they do divulge the source.