Judge keeps slain Vegas reporter’s files protected, for now

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Published October 11, 2022 5:47 PM

By KEN RITTER
Associated Press

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge says Las Vegas police, prosecutors and defense attorneys have to wait to access a slain investigative journalist’s cellphone and electronic devices. That’s over concerns about revealing the reporter’s confidential sources and notes. District Court Judge Susan Johnson said the pause will last until all sides craft a way for a neutral party to screen the records. She granted a Las Vegas Review-Journal request to block immediate review of records. Those likely include source names and unpublished work by reporter Jeff German. Police and prosecutors say they need the records for evidence that a former Democratic elected county official fatally stabbed German in response to articles that German wrote.

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