
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, July 10, 1990                   TAG: 9007100285
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A8   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

JUSTICES REFUSE TO FREE IMPRISONED REPORTER

The Supreme Court said Monday it would not free a Texas television reporter serving a six-month jail term for refusing to reveal the name of a confidential source.

The justices, by a 7-2 vote, rejected an emergency request by reporter Brian Karem of KMOL-TV in San Antonio.

Justices William J. Brennan and Thurgood Marshall voted to grant Karem's request that he be freed pending his appeal of the judge's contempt order.

Karem was jailed June 27 after refusing to disclose the identity of a source who helped arrange his telephone interview last year with jailed murder suspect Henry Hernandez.

Hernandez is charged with fatally shooting San Antonio Police Officer Gary Williams in March 1989.

Attorneys in the murder trial of Hernandez and his brother, Julian, have said they need to know who arranged the interview to assure a fair trial and determine whether the interview should be admitted as evidence.

- Associated Press

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