DENVER -- Grand jury testimony in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case can now be legally shared with the public, according to a ruling a federal judge made on Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Wiley Daniel said that a state court rule which prohibits some grand jury witnesses from talking publicly violated the First Amendment rights of grand jurors.

The rule, part of the Colorado Rules of Criminal Procedure, prohibits grand jury witnesses from discussing their testimony in cases where no indictment or report was issued.

The judge's decision came in a lawsuit filed by Linda Hoffman-Pugh (pictured, above), a former housekeeper for the Ramseys, who spoke about her grand testimony for the first time on Thursday.

"For instance, I've always said that the Swiss Army knife that I hid, put away in a cupboard, there's only one person that would have found it and that was (JonBenet's mother) Patsy Ramsey. And they found it in the room where they found JonBenet," Pugh told 7NEWS.

Pugh said that she spent six to eight hours testifying to the Boulder County grand jury that investigated the slaying of the 6-year-old beauty queen.

Pugh never expected that the grand jury would disband in October 1999 without an indictment.

"When I left there, I firmly believed there would be an indictment when I walked out of the grand jury, and there wasn't," Pugh said. "I'd never believe that the grand jury was ever allowed to take a vote."

Pugh said that the only way that the truth about JonBenet's murder will come out is if she and other grand jury witnesses are allowed to talk, and she's interested in what they would have to say.

Pugh told 7NEWS that she told the grand jury about the ransom note, which she believes was written by Patsy Ramsey.

"Just the similarities, you know, from some of the handwriting that I have of hers. And just some of the things that were said in it, are things that Patsy would say," Pugh said.

"I think that maybe Patsy had multiple personalities," Pugh told 7NEWS. I saw her on that one day. I think she may have gotten upset with JonBenet for some reason and she hit her and did not mean to hurt her. I don't think she meant to hurt JonBenet and it was an accident, and it just continued from there."

Puch plans to write a book about her time with the Ramseys and her testimony. She said that if she could talk to Patsy Ramsey, she would "like for her to look in the mirror tomorrow, and say, 'I killed JonBenet.'"

Despite extensive investigation by Boulder police, the Boulder County District Attorney's Office and the 1998-99 grand jury, no one has been charged in the homicide. The Ramseys maintain that an intruder killed their daughter. They identified Hoffmann-Pugh and others as suspects in a book they wrote, allegations at the heart of Hoffman's two libel suits seeking $50 million each.

JonBenet was found beaten and strangled in her family's home on Dec. 26, 1996. Police say her parents remain under suspicion. John and Patsy Ramsey have denied involvement.

The case remains under investigation.