Legal Opinion
Davis v. the Tennessean
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided August 21, 2001No. M1999-01602-COA-R3-CVPublishedCited by 71 opinions
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2Opinion of the Court · CottrellPatricia J. Cottrell, J.
BEN H. CANTRELL, P.J. M.S., and WILLIAM C. KOCH, J. joined.
The plaintiff filed a libel action against a newspaper, The Tennessean, its publisher and its editor, alleging his reputation had been harmed by a sentence in an article which stated that he had shot a man, when, in fact, his co-defendant had killed the victim. The trial court granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss, finding the plaintiff to be “libel proof’ in this matter because he had been convicted of aiding and abetting in the murder and incarcerated for the remainder of his life for the crime, “render[ing] any…
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