First Amendment Sentence Mitigation: Beyond a Public Accountability Defense for Whistleblowers

Mailyn Fidler[*] [Full text of this Article in PDF is available at this link] Introduction In October 2018, the federal district court in Minnesota sentenced former Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) agent Terry James Albury to four years in prison under the Espionage Act for disclosing internal FBI documents to the press.[1] Albury pleaded guilty … Continue reading First Amendment Sentence Mitigation: Beyond a Public Accountability Defense for Whistleblowers