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...evidence do indeed have the right to push unannounced into a newsroom?or any other place?as long as a judge has issued a search warrant, even if the occupant is not suspected of involvement in a crime. The majority rejected the contentions that police should first seek a subpoena, which can be contested in court, and that freedom of the press under the First Amendment gives newsrooms much more protection against unreasonable searches and seizures than is granted, say, to banks or doctors' offices or private residences, under the Fourth Amendment. Writing for the majority, Justice Byron White concluded...
AFTER A CAMPUS PROTEST in 1971, police obtained a warrant to search the files of the Stanford Daily, an undergraduate newspaper. Since then, two courts have ruled that law enforcement officials must obtain a subpoena to search a newspaper office. Unlike a warrant, a subpoena gives warning before a search, allowing the paper to gather and submit only the documents, tapes or photographs specifically relevant to the case in question. Moreover, it provides the paper a chance to prove that it in fact has no pertinent material, as was the case at Stanford...
...most controversial stipulations in the bill, however, grant the commission the powers of subpoena, full immunity, and prosecution...
These were the central provisions discussed by the various speakers at the hearing before the Joint Judiciary Committee on Thursday. "The committee should consider carefully. Sisitsky said in his testimony, "the scope of the investigation, the power of subpoena, the question of immunity, and the membership of the proposed commission." And despite the confusion created by the committee's apparent intolerance of the public, they did just that...
...testifying for the adoption of the bill in its present form, Johnston urged the retention of the subpoena provision. He argued the commission would be nothing more than a "joke" without the authority to summon those individuals who have information pertinent to the investigation. The subpoena power would also invest the commission with the rights to obtain relevant information from other branches in the government currently pursuing their own investigations...