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According to this story at sfgate.com, the website for the San Francisco Chronicle:

Josh Wolf, a blogger and freelance journalist who has spent 7 1/2 months in federal prison for defying a grand jury subpoena related to his coverage of an anarchist protest, turned over video footage to prosecutors today and will be released shortly, lawyers said.

Under an agreement announced by Wolf’s attorneys, he will not have to testify to the grand jury or identify any of the protesters shown in his video, which has been posted on his Web site.

You can watch the unedited video in question at Wolf’s blog. Wolf writes:

During the course of this saga I have repeatedly offered to allow a judge to be the arbiter over whether or not my video material has any evidentiary value. Today, you the public have the opportunity to be the judge and I am confident you will see, as I do, that there is nothing of value in this unpublished footage.

For background on the case and the issues it raises, check this earlier truefilm post, Is Josh Wolf a journalist?