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· 2/24/1978

Rzeznik v. Chief of Police of Southampton

Citations

  • 373 N.E.2d 1128
  • 374 Mass. 475
  • 1978 Mass. LEXIS 865

How courts have described this case

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  • stating that nothing in statute or legislative history suggests “that, once the fact of a conviction is sealed, it becomes nonexistent, and hence untrue for the purposes of the common law of defamation”
  • \truth is an absolute defense\

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Judges: Hennessey, Braucher, Wilkins, Liacos, Abrams

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