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  "value": "Court struck down ban on disclosing past testimony",
  "statement": "The Supreme Court held that Florida's law violated the First Amendment insofar as it barred a grand jury witness from disclosing his own testimony after the grand jury's term had ended.",
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  "subject_url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1990-us-butterworth-v-smith-grand-jury-secrecy",
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    "url": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0494_0624_ZO.html",
    "final_url": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/494/624",
    "title": "Butterworth v. Smith, 494 U.S. 624 (1990)",
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