Vanessa Leggett
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American freelance journalist and lecturer
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#512
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Why Is Vanessa Leggett Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Vanessa Leggett is an American freelance journalist and lecturer who was jailed by the U.S. Justice Department for 168 days for protecting sources and research notes for an independent book about a federal murder-for-hire case. At the time, it was the longest contempt-of-court imprisonment of a journalist in United States history for protecting sources. Leggett holds the record for serving the most time for protecting source material and without providing that material to negotiate a release from prison.
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