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By Bob Egelko and Jim Herron Zamora
The San Francisco Chronicle
Tuesday 03 April 2007
San Francisco - Josh Wolf, the blogger whose record 7 1/2 months in federal prison stirred debate about who qualifies
as a journalist and what legal protections they should receive, was freed today after releasing video footage sought by
prosecutors about an anarchist protest.
Wolf, 24, held in contempt by a federal judge last August for defying a grand jury subpoena, walked out of the Federal
Correctional Institution in Dublin at mid-afternoon after his lawyers and federal prosecutors reached a compromise, with
the help of a federal magistrate.
Wolf posted the uncut video on his Web site, gave prosecutors a copy and denied under oath that he knew anything about
violent incidents at the July 2005 protest. In return, his lawyers said, prosecutors agreed not to summon him before the
grand jury or ask him to identify any of the protesters shown on his video.
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