Blogger's 1st Amendment Defense Rejected In Video Case

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: Politics
Mon, 06/08/2015 - 12:40pm

(AP) — A Mississippi judge on Monday rejected an argument that a blogger had a First Amendment right to shoot a cellphone video of a U.S. senator's wife while she was bedridden with dementia in a nursing home. The defense attorney for blogger Clayton Kelly made the free-speech argument during pre-trial motions Monday. Richard Sager, a Laurel teacher and coach, who had been charged with conspiracy and tampering with evidence, entered a pretrial diversion program.

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