Legal Opinion
Lake Park Post, Inc. v. Farmer
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided November 24, 2003No. A03A0841, A03A0842PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Barnes, Judge.
In these appeals, the Lake Park Post, Inc., its editor and publisher Al Parsons, and its columnist Charles Moore (collectively “the Lake Park Post defendants”) challenge a judgment based on a jury verdict for compensatory and punitive damages in favor of Kevin Farmer for $225,000. Farmer, a deputy sheriff, sued the Lake Park Post defendants for libel after the paper published a series of articles, written by Parsons and Moore, that stated that Farmer murdered Willie James Williams by brutally and repeatedly hitting Williams with a flashlight while he was handcuffed and not…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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