[Mb-civic] Criminal Contempt Could Lengthen Reporter's Jail Stay - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Criminal Contempt Could Lengthen Reporter's Jail Stay

By Howard Kurtz and Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, July 16, 2005; Page A06

Lawyers in the CIA leaks investigation are concerned that special 
prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald may seek criminal contempt charges 
against New York Times reporter Judith Miller, a rare move that could 
significantly lengthen her time in jail.

<>Miller, now in her 10th day in the Alexandria jail, already faces as 
much as four months of incarceration for civil contempt after refusing 
to answer questions before a grand jury about confidential conversations 
she had in reporting a story in the summer of 2003. Fitzgerald and Chief 
U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan have both raised the possibility in 
open court that Miller could be charged with criminal contempt if she 
continues to defy Hogan's order to cooperate in the investigation of who 
may have unlawfully leaked the name of undercover CIA operative Valerie 
Plame to the media.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/15/AR2005071502080.html?nav=hcmodule 

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