Importance of Knowing Local Laws: The Phoenix New Times Arrests
There's been extensive coverage (here, here, here, and here) in the last week of the arrest and subsequent dismissal of charges against Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, the founders of the Phoenix New Times, a print and online newspaper. Lacey and Larkin were arrested for violating Arizona's grand jury secrecy statute, which makes it a criminal offense for anyone to disclose a "matter attending a grand jury proceeding," after they published details from a grand jury subpoena they received. In a post published on our site yesterday, the Citizen Media Law Project's assistant director Sam Bayard offered a careful...
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