DENVER (AP) – A former housekeeper for JonBenet Ramsey’s parents still plans to publish a book about the 6-year-old’s slaying – but with a blank chapter where her grand jury testimony would have appeared, her attorney said Thursday.
A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the state’s grand jury secrecy law prevents Linda Hoffman-Pugh from using the testimony in a book as long as there’s a chance another grand jury could be called to investigate the case.
Hoffman-Pugh’s lawyer said the planned book, “The Death of an Innocent,” would contain a blank, 32-page chapter in place of the testimony.
Buyers would receive postcards to send their names and addresses to the publisher to receive copies of the chapter if it is ever published, attorney Darnay Hoffman, said.
Hoffman also said an appeal of Wednesday’s decision to the U.S. Supreme Court is likely.
Hoffman-Pugh worked for John and Patsy Ramsey when JonBenet was found strangled and beaten in the basement of their Boulder home on Dec. 26, 1996.
No one has been charged in the slaying, and the grand jury issued no indictments.
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