Duran v. Detroit News, Inc.

Holbrook, Jr., J.

Plaintiffs appeal as of right two Wayne Circuit Court orders dated January 16, 1991, granting summary disposition to all defendants. We affirm.

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Plaintiff Consuelo Sanchez Duran became a judge in Colombia in 1980. In the course of her judicial duties she indicted Pablo Escobar, a reputed drug lord, for the murder of Guillermo Cano, a Colombian newspaper editor. Several threats were made against Sanchez Duran and her family, some of which were reported in Colombian and American newspapers. Sanchez Duran resigned from the bench on August 30, 1988. A Colombian newspaper announced…