People v. Terrence Kenneth Eugene

How courts have described this case

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• stating that to qualify for the fair report privilege, “it is necessary that nothing be omitted or misplaced in such a manner as to convey an erroneous impression” and clarifying that “[t]he accuracy required is to the proceedings, not to the objective truth of the defamatory charges”
• “Abuse of the privilege takes place . . . when the publisher does not give a fair and accurate report of the proceeding.”
• “It is not necessary that [the report] be exact in every immaterial detail or that it conform to that precision demanded in technical or scientific reporting. It is enough that it conveys to the persons who read it a substantially correct account of the proceedings.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).