Matter of Farber

Farber (defendant), a New York Times reporter, investigated Mario Jascalevich's criminal conduct, contributing to Jascalevich's murder prosecution. The trial court ordered Farber to produce his investigative materials; he refused, invoking New Jersey's media source-confidentiality privilege, and was held in contempt and jailed.

Whether information a reporter obtained investigating a murder-information that substantially contributed to the resulting prosecution-meets the preliminary requirements for in camera review despite a media confidentiality privilege.