Curley v. Lisman

PODCASY,J.,

This is an action brought by Patrick H. Curley, a Wilkes-Barre City detective, against Walter W. Lisman, Mayor of the City of Wilkes-Barre.

Detective Curley was the prosecutor in the infamous Hannon murder case which has attracted much attention in the local press during the past year or more. In his complaint, he alleges that defendant was interviewed at his City Hall office on January 4,1980 by a reporter of radio station WILK, said interview being tape recorded with defendant’s knowledge and consent for purposes of later broadcast, and that, during the course of the interview,…