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...York Times's fortunes, the New York newspaper strike appears to have spared the paper the embarassment of reporting recent events in the M.A. Farber case. Farber, the Times reporter who, along with his paper, was cited for contempt of court last month for refusing to permit Judge Isidore Trautwein to examine his notes in camera, admitted in court early this month that he had accepted a $75,000 advance on a book he was preparing on the Mario Jascalevitch murder case. He also admitted to having shown his notes to one of his publisher's editors. Even worse, Farber...
...Judge Trautwein suggested a compromise to finesse, if not resolve, the constitutional conflict: he ordered Farber to submit his notes for a closed, in camera inspection by the Court, which would determine which, if any, of Farber's notes must be turned over to the defense. Attorneys for Farber and the Times rejected this approach, however, arguing that it too violated the First Amendment, and that Judge Trautwein had failed to show why such material might be relevant to Jascalevitch's defense. Trautwein responded by citing Farber and the Times for contempt of court...
...fanatic or an absolutist, declared Farber during his contempt trial before Judge Theodore Trautwein. But, he added, "I believe the First Amendment means what it says about freedom of the press." Editorialized the Times: "A court, no matter how benign, is to us an arm of the state. A promise to protect a source is a promise to protect it against any third party...
Such arguments seemed to cut little ice with Trautwein. "The case is being tried; a man is charged with murder . . . You still say Myron Farber should be the judge," said Trautwein indignantly. All he was asking, the judge continued, was "to let us take a little peek." So impatient was Trautwein to punish Farber, 40, and the Times that he began handing down sentences before pronouncing them guilty. Realizing his mistake, Trautwein declared sheepishly, "I'm putting the cart before the horse." Then he slapped both the paper and the reporter with stiff coercive civil and punitive criminal contempt sentences...
...spring of that year Sepp Trautwein is still just a warm-tempered Munich bourgeois living in voluntary exile: unappreciative of his excellent wife, writing a piece now & then for the exiles' paper, the Paris Gazette, working hard and slowly at his gifted, rather frigid music...