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Making time to be with us tonight. thank you. thanks for having me, rachel. so, if she were to call the reporter s committees free legal hotline to ask for advice here, what advice would you give her in this circumstance? well, i think i would say first off there s long-standing legal authority, including a supreme court landmark decision that makes clear that journalists and news organizations can t be held criminally liable for publishing material about a matter of public concern. it doesn t matter whether the video at issue that you played earlier, rachel, is confidential. it doesn t matter if it was leaked to the los angeles times. the constitution doesn t permit a criminal prosecution for receiving and publishing it. the sheriff s department should know that and it shouldn t be threatening a criminal investigation as retaliation for that constitutionally protected activity. threatening and retaliation are the key words there. ....

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