Gov asks court to shutdown defendants website
- U.S. v. Carmichael: A federal court in Alabama has refused to order a criminal defendant to take down a website he established about his case. While the court ruled that it had the power to issue the order, it declined to do so on free speech grounds as well as due to the defendant's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to investigate his case by using the website togather evidence.
related case: California Court of Appeal has ordered the disclosure of the identity of an individual that allegedly posted defamatory content online.
