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information and thereby inform the public outweigh and are superior to the right of others to discover how and from whom you obtained the information to write your story. I assume that your protected secrecy in this regard is neither suspicious nor sinister. You are simply keeping a confidence entrusted to you by a source of information. You would not be a free press under the First Amendment unless you were able to protect the confidence of your source.
Similarly, privilege and protection applies to disclosure of communications between a patient and a physician; a penitent and a priest; a husband and a wife; and a client and a lawyer. In these instances, the courts have found, as in your case, that the interests of society are better served by protecting these sacred relationships. An invasion and disclosure of the communications during these relationships would destroy the relationships which the courts have found are essential, albeit secret, to the maintenance of a free society.
The same protection holds true in the case of testimony given by a citizen to a grand jury during an investigation. A grand jury is a group of citizens which sits in secret to determine whether a crime has been committed in the community. The grand jury has been a bulwark of liberty to protect innocent citizens from malicious, arbitrary and abusive prosecutors. The grand jury sits in secret to permit citizens to give evidence without retribution, reprisal, or injury to their liberty, fortune or reputation.
The court in this case was dealing with privileged
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