Josh Wolf's Contempt Citation Upheld

SAN FRANCISCO A federal appeals court on Monday upheld the contempt of court citation against a San Francisco freelance journalist who is refusing to cooperate with a grand jury investigating an anarchists' protest he videotaped.

A federal grand jury subpoenaed Joshua Wolf to acquire the 30 minutes of unpublished material, but he refused and was jailed in early August.

After about a month in jail, Wolf, 24, was released from the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin on Sept. 1 while he appealed the subpoena.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a 1972 Supreme Court precedent requires everyone, including journalists, to appear before grand juries if they have been summoned.

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