The Nation - News from Jan. 9, 1987
A newspaper reporter who refused to testify in a murder trial about his interview with the defendant was cited for criminal contempt of court. Robert Hohler, of the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire, took the stand in Knox County Superior Court in Rockland, Me., and invoked what he called his “qualified privilege under the First Amendment” not to answer further questions in the murder trial of Richard Steeves. Assistant Atty. Gen. Thomas Goodwin requested that Hohler be held in criminal contempt so that he would be entitled to a jury trial.
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