Word: jascalevich
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Milton Katz, Stimon Professor of Law, said yesterday that the success of the Times' appeal will depend on whether the court feels the significance of the issues involved justifies further action, since they are no longer germane to the Jascalevich case...
After spending 40 days in jail for refusing to turn over his notes to the court in the Jascalevich murder trial, Farber was freed when the case went to jury because his notes were no longer needed for the trial...
...Farber's digging that led to the multiple-murder indictment of Dr. Mario Jascalevich, who is charged with injecting lethal doses of the muscle relaxant curare into three patients in a small suburban New Jersey hospital during 1965-66. The doctor's defense lawyer demanded to see Farber's notes, but Farber refused, citing the First Amendment and a New Jersey "shield" law that allows reporters the privilege of keeping their sources confidential. A New Jersey judge asked to see the notes in private, and Farber still refused. Off to jail he went, cited for contempt...
Then, last week, Federal Judge Frederick Lacey tore into Farber, accusing him of harboring mixed motives. Farber, it turns out, is writing a book about the Jascalevich case and has been given a $75,000 advance by Doubleday, his publisher. Charging that Farber has a financial stake in seeing Jascalevich convicted, Lacey declared: "This is a sorry spectacle of a reporter who purported to stand on his reporter's privilege when in fact he was standing on an altar of greed." How can Farber justify revealing information to a publisher for profit, demanded the judge...
Choosing discretion over valor, Farber and his paper finally decided to hand over the manuscript to Judge William Arnold, who is trying the Jascalevich case. Arnold accepted the book, commenting that it might make "interesting reading." Surprisingly, Jascalevich's attorney, Raymond Brown, initially objected to Farber's offer, saying that he is after the notes, not the book. But some wonder about his motives as well. It has been suggested that Brown does not really want to see Farber's notes, knowing that they are actually useless to his case. He just wants Farber to refuse...