A New York Times reporter will not have to testify or hand over interview notes in the upcoming trial of a man charged in the 1991 murder of a girl who became known as “Baby Hope,” an appeals court decided Thursday.
In a reversal of an August ruling by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Bonnie Wittner, the Appellate Division, First Department, cited the state’s “consistent” tradition of “providing the broadest possible protection to ‘the sensitive role of gathering and disseminating news.’”
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