Last year's grand jury testimony on steroid use by Jason Giambi got onto the pages of a San Francsico newspaper a few weeks ago. Of course, it got national play.
Apart from the understandable furor over the issue of baseball players' steroid use, I wondered, "How did grand jury testimony get into the newspapers?" I served on a grand jury once and know that the substantive proceedings of such a body, deliberations for which are necessarily a bit freewheeling, are to be kept confidential. (I even wrote a note to lawyer Mark Sides of Sidesspot, asking how this could be.)
Today, Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit links to some interesting stuff on that very topic.
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