Provencio v. Paradigm Media, Inc.

OPINION

LARSEN, Justice.

Armando Provencio appeals a summary judgment favoring Paradigm Media, Inc. in this defamation case with accompanying tort claims based on the same statements. Finding the statements at issue were substantially true, we affirm.

FACTS

In March 1997, Armando Provencio pleaded guilty to the offense of indecency with a child, and was placed on five years’ deferred adjudication probation. Proven-cio was required to register as a sex offender in accordance with Chapter 62 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure. 1 Information concerning Provencio’s conviction, as well as his…