Gersh v. Ambrose

In 1978 appellee, Lance V. Ambrose, a staff member of the Baltimore City Community Relations Commission (the "Commission”) filed a defamation suit against appellant, Howard Gersh, an Assistant State’s Attorney for Baltimore City, alleging that at a public hearing before the Community Relations Commission Gersh had slanderously accused Ambrose of having committed the criminal offenses of obstruction of justice and subornation of perjury. Gersh demurred to an amended declaration on grounds (1) that Ambrose failed to set forth, haec verba, the alleged defamatory words, but merely appended a…