15th
May
2008
Jury Clears Photographer
posted in First Amendment |
As reported in the Houston Chronicle, a jury cleared a news photographer of the charge that he interfered with police by refusing to stop photographing an arrest during the city's Mardi Gras party in 2007.
Prosecutor April Powell told jurors that Nick Adams, then a photographer for the Galveston County Daily News, stepped within the "perimeter of safety" officers had established while effectuating an arrest.
Adams's defense attorney said that the digital index in Adams's camera showed that police had deleted some of the camera's pictures while Adams was in custody. He said that the deleted images would have shown that Adams was clearly outside Powell's "perimeter of safety."
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