In Henry v. Attorney General, the Eleventh Circuit clarified the scope and upheld the constitutionality of Alabama’s grand jury secrecy law. The case raised two issues: (1) whether Alabama’s grand jury secrecy law could “reasonably be read to prohibit a grand jury witness from divulging information he learned before he testified to the grand jury,” and (2) whether the law’s “prohibition on a witness’s disclosure of grand jury information that he learned only by virtue of being made a witness” violates the Free Speech Clause.
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