Colorado theater shooter lawyers ask Supreme Court for reporter's sources

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Colorado theater shooter lawyers ask Supreme Court for reporter's sources

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/colorado-theater-shooter-lawyers-ask-supreme-court-reporters-175217522--sector.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ce10Fl1sI.ubpkYZCqXcGA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-03-07T175217Z_1_CBREA261DN700_RTROPTP_2_USA-SHOOTING-DENVER.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Accused Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes listens at his arraignment in Centennial" align="left" title="Accused Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes listens at his arraignment in Centennial" border="0" /></a>Attorneys for the man charged with mass murder for shooting dozens of people at a Colorado movie theater have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to force a reporter to reveal confidential sources she used for a story about the massacre. James Holmes, 26, faces the death penalty in the shooting rampage that killed 12 people and injured dozens more at a screening of the Batman film &quot;The Dark Knight Rises&quot; on July 20, 2012. His attorneys filed a petition on Thursday, asking the Supreme Court to consider overturning a 2013 ruling by New York's top state court, the Court of Appeals, which found that New York's journalist shield law protected Fox News reporter Jana Winter from being compelled to testify in Holmes' case in Colorado. Holmes' lawyers said Winter's testimony is necessary to determine the identity of law enforcement officials who violated a gag order and divulged some of the contents of a notebook Holmes allegedly sent to a psychiatrist before the shooting incident.</p><br clear="all"/>

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