Fla. Paper's Prison Snitch Story Protected By 1st Amendment

By Steven Trader (January 21, 2016, 9:03 PM EST) -- A Florida appeals court on Thursday overturned a lower court's ruling that a local newspaper was prohibited from publishing transcripts of recorded prison phone conversations between Florida prosecutors and an inmate accused of "snitching" on other prisoners to the state, finding the paper was protected by the First Amendment....

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