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  "name": "Bob Martinez",
  "office": null,
  "role": "Governor of Florida",
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      "slug": "1990-us-butterworth-v-smith-grand-jury-secrecy",
      "title": "United States Supreme Court strikes down Florida law barring a reporter from discussing his own grand jury testimony",
      "occurred_on": "1990-03-21",
      "occurred_on_precision": "day",
      "country": "US",
      "country_name": "United States",
      "continent": "north-america",
      "jurisdiction": "US-FL",
      "level": "state_or_province",
      "tactic_primary": "secrets_and_espionage_laws",
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      "leader_slug": "bob-martinez",
      "leader_name": "Bob Martinez",
      "issue_of_the_day": "Smith's reporting concerned alleged wrongdoing inside the Charlotte County State Attorney's Office and Sheriff's Department, which a special prosecutor and a state grand jury were investigating.",
      "outcome": "reversed",
      "outcome_on": "1990-03-21",
      "outcome_note": "The Supreme Court held unanimously that Florida's ban violated the First Amendment as applied to a witness who wanted to discuss his own testimony after the grand jury's term had ended.",
      "stage": "silence",
      "ladder_note": null,
      "rsf": {
        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
        "rank": 64,
        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180",
        "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
      },
      "era": "1990s",
      "granularity": "anchor",
      "status": "historical",
      "case_count": 0,
      "summary": "In 1990, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down a Florida law that threatened newspaper reporter Michael Smith with criminal prosecution for discussing his own testimony before a state grand jury investigating local officials. The Court ruled unanimously that a state may not ban a grand jury witness from disclosing his own testimony once the grand jury's term has ended.",
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