EDINBURG (TX)
The Monitor

December 4, 2017

By Molly Smith

The former employer of a reporter called to testify in the John Feit murder trial is objecting to his testimony, according to court documents filed last week.

Feit, 85, is on trial for allegedly murdering schoolteacher Irene Garza in April 1960, when he served as a visiting priest.

The Dallas Morning News submitted an objection to the prosecution’s Nov. 21 subpoena of Brooks Egerton, a former investigative reporter who currently resides in Tennessee and works as a freelance writer and editor and has written about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

The judge presiding over the case has yet to issue a ruling on the objection.

Lawyers for The Dallas Morning News argue in the objection that under the Texas Free Flow of Information Act — also known as Texas reporter’s privilege — “a journalist and a news medium…