Judge tells two newspapers to preserve emails in capital murder case

2016-01-08T14:57:50-06:00

By Claire Osborn Austin American-Statesman Originally published Jan. 7, 2015 GEORGETOWN — A Williamson County judge ordered the publishers of two newspapers Thursday to preserve any emails they had received this fall from District Attorney Jana Duty about the controversial Crispin Harmel murder case. There has been an order since April prohibiting lawyers involved in the case from talking to reporters about it. Duty has already served time in jail for talking to an American-Statesman reporter about the case while the gag order was in effect. Defense attorneys had subpoenaed the publishers of The Williamson County Sun and The Advocate to [...]