A former OPB reporter will not be compelled to testify about his interview with an occupation leader during last year’s takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

In January 2016, former OPB reporter John Sepulvado, now with KQED in California, interviewed occupation leader Ryan Bundy about the refuge takeover. Prosecutors want to play the audio interview for the jury, which is tasked with deciding whether four defendants are guilty of federal charges related to their occupation of the wildlife refuge.

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David Alan Sklansky is a professor at Stanford law school, and a former federal prosecutor.

“It’s reasonable to expect that Attorney General [Jeff] Sessions will take a different approach to all kinds of issues than his predecessors,” Sklansky said. “But this particular decision, I don’t think is telling of any shift in position.”