Epstein Secrets

claiming the protection of the Shield Law, if accepted, would fundamentally impair the ability of journalists to conduct routine newsgathering. As the New Jersey Supreme Court recently stated in noting this common reportorial practice in a decision rejecting Edwards' waiver argument: [W]e acknowledge the dynamic and compl

nfidential source and his unpublished interview therefore fell within the federal qualified privilege that governs non-confidential news material in the Second Circuit. Dist. Ct. Op. at 4 (quoting Gonzales v. NBC, 194 F.3d 29, 36 (2d Cir. 1999)). Applying the federal qualified privilege standard (which is signific

nt asserts has been harmed by a crime or who self-identifies as such qualifies as a "victim"); cf. In re WR. Huff Asset Mgmt. Co., 409 F.3d 555, 561 (2d Cir. 2005) (holding that the CVRA does not grant victims any rights against individuals not convicted of a crime, but the government can attempt to obtain

le information for the judge on where to transfer the case to (e.g., to an adjacent state rather than a distant one). 212 a capital case decided by the New Jersey Supreme Court. In Timmendequas, the trial judge imported a jury from a distant community rather than force the family of a murdered young girl to travel to another

ongressional determination, blocking defense efforts to obtain pretrial discovery about government witnesses. For example, in United States v. Coppa, the Second Circuit overturned the district court's approval of a scheduling order requiring the government to identify its witnesses in advance of trial. +3? The distri

g the trial). 376 An illustration of the general approach of the proposed rule comes from the leading case of State v. Timmendequas, 37? decided by the New Jersey Supreme Court. In Timmendequas, the trial judge imported a jury from a distant community to hear a capital case rather than forcing the family of a murdered young