Question juridique clé
Whether the journalist could be compelled to testify about his confidential source under Art. 172 CCP in this homicide investigation.
Solution extraite
The source privilege could not be overridden on the facts; the testimony was no longer indispensable to clarify the crime and the proportionality test was not met.
Motifs extraits
After the arrest of the accused and the first-instance trial, the requested information had at most secondary relevance. The record did not show that other evidentiary avenues had been exhausted, and the cantonal court failed to conduct the required concrete balancing of interests and proportionality analysis.