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Friday, March 17, 2006
Law - Suit filed against LJC in Kentucky court for publication of a photo of the wrong man
The Louisville Courier Journal reports today:
A Lexington man sued The Courier-Journal yesterday, claiming he was humiliated after being identified last year in a picture as Charles Boney, the man recently convicted of conspiring with David Camm to kill Camm's family.Daryl French's lawsuit alleges that a March 20, 2005, article on Boney being a suspect in the September 2000 murders of Kimberly Camm and the Camms' two children included a picture inside the newspaper of French, with a caption saying he was Boney.
On March 22, 2005, The Courier-Journal ran a correction noting that the photo used, a yearbook photo of a New Albany High School wrestler from the mid-1980s, was of French, one of Boney's teammates.
The yearbook showed two photos but included information with only one of the photos, according to the correction.
French claimed that the use of the photo was defamatory and an invasion of his privacy, and that it still can be seen on the newspaper's Web site.
However, the newspaper removed the photo from its Web site on March 21, 2005, immediately after learning it was incorrect, said Ric Manning, the newspaper's online manager.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 17, 2006 07:32 AM
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