Maybe, maybe not, but there is precedence in America for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg
> Daniel Ellsberg... precipitated a national political
> controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers,
> a top-secret Pentagon study of the U.S. government decision-
> making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York
> Times and other newspapers.
>
> On January 3, 1973, Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage
> Act of 1917 along with other charges of theft and conspiracy,
> carrying a total maximum sentence of 115 years. Due to
> governmental misconduct and illegal evidence-gathering,
> and the defense by Leonard Boudin and Harvard Law School
> professor Charles Nesson, Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr.
> dismissed all charges against Ellsberg on May 11, 1973.
Maybe, maybe not, but there is precedence in America for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg
> Daniel Ellsberg... precipitated a national political
> controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers,
> a top-secret Pentagon study of the U.S. government decision-
> making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York
> Times and other newspapers.
>
> On January 3, 1973, Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage
> Act of 1917 along with other charges of theft and conspiracy,
> carrying a total maximum sentence of 115 years. Due to
> governmental misconduct and illegal evidence-gathering,
> and the defense by Leonard Boudin and Harvard Law School
> professor Charles Nesson, Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr.
> dismissed all charges against Ellsberg on May 11, 1973.