New York Court Rules Fox Reporter Need Not Testify At Holmes Trial

The New York State Court of Appeals has ruled, 4-3, that Fox reporter Jana Winter does not have to testify in the case of James Holmes, on trial for a July 2012 mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado. The majority reversed the decision of the lower court, emphasing the absolute nature of the New York privilege, and the fact that the issue presented  found that under New York’s reporter shield law, a journalist has an absolute privilege to offer her source confidentiality and to protect that confidentiality, and that