»In which he breaks the record
Josh Wolf, 24, spent his 169th day in a Dublin federal prison after declining a subpoena to turn over unaired videotape he shot of the chaotic 2005 San Francisco street protest against the G-8 summit happening a continent away in Scotland.Wolf's stint surpassed that of Vanessa Leggett, a Houston-based freelancer who served 168 days in 2001 and 2002 for declining to reveal unpublished material about a murder case.
Wolf sold some of his footage from the event to local television stations and posted parts of the video on his Web site. He and his lawyers have argued that the First Amendment gives him the right to refuse the subpoena to turn over the rest of the tape.
But judges have repeatedly turned down motions for Wolf to be released, citing a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the U.S. Constitution does not entitle reporters to withhold their confidential sources or unpublished material in a grand jury investigation or criminal trial.
