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...Zurcher vs. Stanford Daily (1978). With a warrant, police can make a surprise raid on a newsroom to search for evidence of crime committed by others...
...there is evidence on the other side as well. One of the year's most widely denounced Supreme Court rulings-Zurcher vs. Stanford Daily-which authorized some police searches of newsrooms, has apparently not touched off the feared wave of such raids. In addition, a Gallup poll this month indicates that Americans support a reporter's right to protect confidential sources by a margin of 3 to 1, more than in similar surveys in 1972 and 1973. Still, more and more lawyers are using subpoenas of reporters as gambits in criminal trials. "They may even think they have...
About the only clear signal from the disjointed court this year was aimed at the press. Claims by the press to special privilege under the First Amendment took a drubbing in several cases. The message struck with the bluntness of a sledgehammer in Zurcher vs. Stanford Daily, which allowed police to raid newsrooms without warning to search for evidence of crimes committed by others. Although the court ruled that police must first obtain warrants, many commentators feared that local magistrates would not hesitate to let police fish through reporters' desks and notebooks, scaring off sources from confiding...
...refusal to give the press unique access comes only four weeks after the court, in Zurcher vs. Stanford Daily, refused to grant journalists any special First Amendment protection from legal police searches. A few weeks before that, Burger declared in an opinion in another case that members of the press generally have no greater free speech rights than nonmembers. All this has convinced some journalists that the court is growing increasingly indifferent to the rights of the press. Says Jack Landau, director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: "The court feels the press is arrogant and greedy...
Palo Alto Police Chief James Zurcher said after the raid that he had ordered the action because the Daily had a policy of "destroying evidence to protect criminals." Barringer said yesterday that this was a "complete misrepresentation" of the Daily's policy...