Judge modifies approval of SPD subpoena for news media footage of protests, stays ruling for three weeks

In a hearing that began Thursday morning, recessed multiple times, and ultimately finished up midday today, Judge Nelson Lee made modifications to his earlier approval of SPD’s subpoena for the footage that several local news media companies took of criminal activity at the May 30 protest and riot.  He then (mostly) stayed that order for 21 days to allow the news companies to appeal his ruling.

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