By Michael Kiefer | The Republic
The Arizona Supreme Court has dismissed a case against an Arizona Republic editor after a 19-month legal battle in which the newspaper argued that he did not have to turn over his unpublished notes from an interview with a crime victim.
John D’Anna in December 2015 published a story about a Catholic priest who said he forgave the man who attacked him with a tire iron and then shot another priest to death. The killer’s defense attorneys in January 2016 subpoenaed D’Anna’s notes from his interviews, and a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ordered that he turn them over.