California Court of Appeal

Defendant's murder convictions are affirmed over her claim that the court erroneously applied the newsperson's shield law to restrict her cross-examination of a newspaper reporter who interviewed her in jail.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/20/2005
• Published 07/20/2005

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Davis Wright Tremaine, Kelli L. Sager and Alonzo Wickers IV, Los Angeles, CA, Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, James E. Grossberg and Ashley I. Kissinger, Washington, DC, for Freedom Communications and William Rams as Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark Alan Hart, Northridge, CA, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Pamela A. Ratner-Sobeck and Lynne G. McGinnis, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.