Keyword: Criminal Libel
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QUICKLINK Colorado · December 2, 2008 · Libel
Man faces criminal libel charges over Craigslist posts
A Colorado man is facing criminal libel charges after his ex-girlfriend complained to the police about posts he allegedly made about her on Craigslist, according to The Associated Press.
J.P. Weichel was charged with two counts of criminal libel after authorities traced the postings, which claimed that the woman and her attorney had exchanged sex acts for legal services, and determined that Weichel was the suspect, The AP said. He reportedly told investigators in August that he had . . . [more]
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QUICKLINK Colorado · November 3, 2008 · Libel
Colorado man charged with seldom-used criminal libel
A Colorado man was charged this week under the state's rarely used, 45-year-old criminal libel statute for allegedly doctoring photos of a woman to show her, in the local police chief's words, "in a compromising position," The Pueblo Chieftan reported.
Robert Ezekiel Tafoya would face a maximum of 18 months in prison if convicted as charged, The Chieftan said.
The newspaper did not identify Tafoya's accuser, and . . . [more]
— Jordan Zappala, 4:16 pm · Comments: 0
QUICKLINK Wisconsin · October 31, 2008 · Libel
Wisconsin woman convicted of criminal libel
A Wisconsin woman could face up to nine months in jail or a $10,000 fine after being convicted of criminal defamation this week.
Laura Lee Janzig pleaded guilty to criminal defamation in Superior, Wisc. for allegedly false e-mail she wrote to members of the Superior School District alleging that a local teacher was having sex with her students and videotaping it. The accused teacher was put on administrative leave and was investigated by the local police department.
The e-mail was traced back to Janzig, who was dating a . . . [more]
— Samantha Fredrickson, 11:08 am · Comments: 0
QUICKLINK International · September 11, 2008 · Libel
American wine critic faces criminal libel charges in France
A French judge has begun investigating criminal libel charges brought against U.S. wine critic Robert Parker.
Parker's former assistant, Hanna Agostini, filed the lawsuit in Paris last year, claiming that Parker made disparaging remarks about her on his Web site in November 2007, the Associated Press reported. Parker wrote that Agostini, who is being investigated for alleged forgery in a wine-trafficking incident, “could end up stagnating in prison,” according to The Associated . . . [more]
— Samantha Fredrickson, 6:03 pm · Comments: 0
QUICKLINK Oklahoma · August 19, 2008 · Libel
Okla. prosecutor files criminal libel complaint against blogger
A local district attorney in Oklahoma has filed a criminal libel complaint against a blogger there -- and police are investigating the case.
Authorities last week subpoenaed blogger Harold King for the names and Social Security numbers of 35 bloggers on his Web site, mccooler.net. As of Saturday, the McAlester News-Capital reported the authorities appeared to be letting that subpoena drop after King volunteered his . . . [more]
— Kathleen Cullinan, 5:08 pm · Comments: 0
QUICKLINK Wisconsin · August 11, 2008 · Libel
Wisc. man gets 18-month probation sentence in criminal libel case
A Wisconsin Realtor convicted of criminal defamation was sentenced Thursday to 18 months on probation for writing on a local industry Web site that another Realtor was linked to the Russian mob.
Kent Haluska, 26, pleaded no contest to the three misdemeanor charges, the Green Bay Press-Gazette said. Authorities alleged that in one instance, on April 4, Haluska wrote on the network ActiveRain.com about the woman identified as M.S.: . . . [more]
— Kathleen Cullinan, 5:20 pm · Comments: 0
COMMENTARY Wisconsin · May 5, 2008 · Libel
Students charged with criminal defamation
Two Wisconsin high school students were charged with criminal defamation after assembling and posting a nude photo collage of a female classmate.
After the unnamed classmate accused him of throwing a bowling ball through the front door of her home, Tyler Schultz, who previously dated the student, composed the montage using 11 photographs that she had sent to him and other students at the school via cell phone. Michael Meyer-Senty, another of her former boyfriends, later posted five copies of the collage throughout one of the school’s locker rooms.
Under Wisconsin law, criminal defamation is a Class A misdemeanor, defining defamatory matter as “anything which exposes the other to hatred, contempt, ridicule, degradation or disgrace in society or injury in the other’s business or occupation.”
Criminal . . . [more]
— Matthew Pollack, 12:23 pm · Comments: 0
NEWS MEDIA UPDATE · February 22, 1999 · Reporter's privilege
Newspapers subpoenaed for letters from suspect in murder case
TEXAS--The district attorney who is prosecuting three white men charged with the high-profile murder of a black man in Jasper, Texas, subpoenaed The Dallas Morning News and The Jasper NewsBoy in late January for documents and testimony regarding correspondence between reporters and one of the murder suspects, John William King.
After King was charged, both newspapers received letters from him. As of mid-February, King was being tried on a murder charge in Jasper County for his alleged participation in the fatal assault on James Byrd Jr., who was dragged to death behind a pickup truck. King has been described as a white supremacist. In the letters, King narrated his recollection of the night of Byrd's death. King did not confess in the letters, but he stated that he and the other men accused of the murder did encounter Byrd that night.
In response to the subpoena issued against it, The Dallas Morning News published excerpts from King's correspondence in the newspaper and posted the correspondence in its entirety on the newspaper's Internet site. The Dallas paper argued that it need not turn over materials already in the public domain to the district . . . [more]
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