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Actually, a class 6 felony is the lowest grade. Premeditated murder is a
class 1 felony.
David Eason
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Behalf Of Lauren
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 7:38 PM
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Subject: RE: Techie's List
"Criminal Libel ... is a Class 6 Felony"?
Wow. That one can get a person's attention.
Lauren
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James Barrow
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 10:20 PM
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Subject: RE: Techie's List
>Fred Ridder said:
>
>So Jim, are you saying that you were not the person who said "They
>would have to prove a) a post to this website was actually a crime"?
I did indeed post that.
>And for the record, the one and only place in the thread where the
>words "crime" or "criminal" were used in any posting to the list was in
>a message from Janice Gelb where she was directly quoting from an item
>on a case law website. The word "criminal" did appear in the quotation,
>but the whole point of the quotation was that a specific statute in
>Illinois had been interpreted by the state's supreme court as part of
>criminal libel law [rather than civil libel law] and therefore subject
>to issues of intent and purpose rather than simply the truth or
falseness
of the statement.
The link that Janice posted talked about a defense to a charge of
criminal
libel. Going on that, I looked up Criminal Libel which, in some states,
is
a Class 6 Felony:
"All that changed in 1964, when the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that
public
officials (later broadened to include public figures) could not win a
libel
verdict or secure a criminal-libel conviction without proving that the
report was made with "actual malice," and either published with the
knowledge that it was untrue or done with a reckless disregard for the
truth."
In reference to the Techie List, the subject of a poor rating would have
to
prove actual malice to support a charge of criminal libel. But, in my
haste
to get to my lunch, I didn't map out the happy path from Janice's link
to my
comment. I apologize.
>So as far as the thread itself goes, you *were* the first (and only)
>person to state or imply that libel was a crime. Check the list archive
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