{"id":572,"date":"2006-09-25T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2006\/09\/25\/why-put-that-amendment-first-2\/"},"modified":"2006-09-25T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T19:18:00","slug":"why-put-that-amendment-first-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2006\/09\/25\/why-put-that-amendment-first-2\/","title":{"rendered":"why put that amendment first?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"san francisco chronicle<\/em><\/a> writers mark fainaru-wada and lance williams face up to 18 months of federal prison time, pending appeal, for refusing to identify the source of leaked grand jury testimony in a steroid investigation involving barry bonds.<\/p>\n

18 months is a pretty long sentence (even in comparison to the clunky lead sentence written above). under the current minnesota guidelines<\/a>, someone with minimal criminal history would get 18 months or less for crimes such as simple robbery, residential burglary, theft greater than $2500, forgery, and sale of controlled substances.<\/p>\n

as a former journalist wannabe, i’m officially spooked<\/a>. et tu, sports page<\/em>? this is supposed to be the “toy department,” not the trenches of modern journalism. it seems that any <\/em>writers could find themselves neck-deep in such cases, with the possible exception of bridge columnists and sudoku contributors. as for this investigation, here are some of the major players:<\/p>\n

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  1. barry bonds<\/a>, the expanding<\/a> man. <\/li>\n
  2. victor conte<\/a>, who admitted distributing steroids to athletes and laundering the proceeds (sentenced to 4 months in prison and 2 years of court supervision for illegal drug distribution). <\/li>\n
  3. greg anderson<\/a>, mr. bonds’ trainer, who has already done 3 months after pleading guilty to dealing steroids and laundering money, plus 15 days for refusing to answer a previous grand jury’s questions.<\/li>\n
  4. mark fainaru-wada and lance williams<\/a>, the reporters who are refusing to name names.<\/li>\n
  5. judith miller<\/a>, former new york times <\/em>reporter who did 3 months last year, after refusing to identify sources in a cia leak investigation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    who do you think will<\/u> ultimately do the most <\/em>time as a result of the balco investigation? who, if anyone, do you think should<\/u> do the most time?<\/p>\n

    republican arlen specter has sponsored senate bill s. 2831 – \u201cthe free flow of information act of 2006\u201d<\/a>, a “shield” law that might offer some protection for journalists in such situations — except for those seditious bridge columnists<\/a>, that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    san francisco chronicle writers mark fainaru-wada and lance williams face up to 18 months of federal prison time, pending appeal, for refusing to identify the source of leaked grand jury testimony in a steroid investigation involving barry bonds. 18 months is a pretty long sentence (even in comparison to the clunky lead sentence written above). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}