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Journalist Facing Jail Time For Refusing To Reveal Sources

An Illinois crime reporter who published information from classified police reports regarding a grisly double murder is facing jail time after refusing to reveal his sources to a judge.

Joe Hosey, who works for the Joliet, Ill., Patch, a network of local news websites run by AOL, was ordered by Will County Judge Gerald Kinney to give up the sources who gave him details about the murders last January. Two of the four suspects allegedly had sex on the victims' corpses, and all four are accused of drinking and partying after the two men were strangled.

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