Posted on 09/20/2006 2:34:49 PM PDT by SmithL
Freelance journalist Josh Wolf has two more days to return to prison or testify and produce the outtakes of footage he shot at a violent San Francisco protest in July 2005, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said today.
Wolf, 24, was to have reported to the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin by 1 p.m. today. He received a last-minute order from the court at 11:17 a.m. giving him a 48-hour extension.
At a news conference today outside the prison, Wolf said: "Really, the only effect this has -- of sending me to jail prematurely and not allowing things to play out -- is, it silences me. To me, this does seem like an assault on the press."
Wolf said he needed more time to put his affairs in order before returning to prison for possibly nine months or more.
A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week rejected Wolf's appeal of a lower court's decision to hold him in contempt. The same three judges on Monday granted a federal prosecutor's motion to revoke bail.
Attorneys for Wolf, who has already spent a month behind bars before being released on bail Sept. 1, had hoped to keep their client free while he appeals the case. They plan to ask the full Ninth Circuit appeals court in San Francisco next month to review the case and may also take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Rhetorical question: Why should "journalists" be given special rights? If anyone else attempted what he's doing, wouldn't they have been locked up too, without the aid of leftist law groups?
So who's he trying to protect anyway? Is he on the side of those that wish to cause civil disobediance and destruction of federal property and let them get away with it? Oh yes, freedom of the press overrules everything, casualties be damned! What a freakin' ungracious, self-important leftard!
Fully aware of that -- just wondering aloud why he would withhold possible evidence of criminal activity. I'm sure the family of the officer who got his head fractured would like to see if they have it on tape as well. When freedom of the press supercedes evidence of possible criminal activity and the public's need to know, I tend to lean towards getting the criminals. I guess I'm kinda old-fashioned in that way.
His loyalties are elsewhere.
As are most of the MSM, but I'm sure you already knew that :-)
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