Feb. 11, 2000

First Amendment Snagged With Sacramento Reporter in Spring Trap

California's judicial hunting season for journalists, a favorite quarry of authoritarians everywhere, is in full swing. Last week, thanks to the enthusiastic support of the DA and the Irvine Police Department, an Orange County Superior Court judge corralled freelance TV news cameraman David Harvey. Harvey got three years in the probation barnyard after a jury convicted him of one count of interfering with a police officer at the scene of an accident.