New York’s journalist shield law cannot stop a Fox News reporter from being forced to testify about her anonymous sources for a story on last summer’s deadly mass shooting in Colorado, a divided state appeals court ruled on Tuesday.
Reporter Jana Winter cited two unnamed law enforcement sources when she said the accused gunman, James Holmes, sent a notebook with details about his plan to a psychiatrist before the attack that killed 12 and injured dozens more at a Denver-area movie theater.
Tuesday’s 3-2 decision by a New York state appeals court means Winter can be compelled to testify in the Holmes case, but not necessarily forced to divulge the sources for her story. Under Colorado’s weaker shield law, however, Winter could find it difficult to assert her legal privileges as a reporter.
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