Butterworth v. Smith

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1990-03-21

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Chief Justice Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the Court. A Florida statute, with certain limited exceptions, prohibits a grand jury witness from ever disclosing testimony which he gave before that body. We hold that insofar as the Florida law prohibits a grand jury witness from disclosing his own testimony after the term of the grand jury has ended, it violates the First Amendment to the United States Consti…

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