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STATE v. HOHLER

543 A.2d 364 (1988)

STATE of Maine v. Robert HOHLER.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided June 30, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Tierney, Atty. Gen., James T. Kilbreth (orally) Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Augusta, for the State.

Nelson J. Larkins, Michael G. Messerschmidt (orally), Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau & Pachios, Portland, William L. Chapman, Concord, N.H., for defendant.

Jonathan S. Piper, Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau & Pachios, for amicus curiae.

Before McKUSICK, C.J., and ROBERTS, WATHEN, GLASSMAN, SCOLNIK and CLIFFORD, JJ.

ROBERTS, Justice.

A newspaper reporter for New Hampshire's Concord Monitor, Robert Hohler, was convicted of criminal contempt in Superior Court, Knox County, for refusing to testify in the murder trial of Richard Steeves after the court ordered him to answer questions concerning a published article that described Hohler's interview with Steeves. In ordering Hohler to testify, the court assumed that Maine would recognize a qualified privilege for a reporter not to...

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