Kennedy v. Cannon

How courts have described this case

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• holding privilege did not apply to defense attorney’s statement to a reporter
• defense attorney’s defamatory statements to press relating to pending criminal proceeding were not absolutely privileged because they had no relation to the prosecution
• \[A]n attorney who wishes to litigate his case in the press will do so at his own risk\
• the “absolute privilege will not attach to counsel’s extrajudicial publications, related to the litigation, which are made outside the purview of the judicial proceeding” (citations omitted)
• “[T]he extension of this absolute privilege to statements not made in the judicial proceeding itself is limited ... by the comments on the rule of the Restatement itself____”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).