REEVES v. KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWSPAPER, INC.

No. 85-2709.

490 So.2d 1333 (1986)

Curtis REEVES and Lorna Diane Le Blanc, Appellants, v. KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWSPAPER, INC., John McMullan and Edna Buchanan, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

July 1, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan P. Byrd, Miami, and Dennis Berger, North Miami Beach, for appellants.

Richard H. Ovelmen, Thomson, Zeder, Bohrer, Werth, Adorno & Razook and Jerold I. Budney and Sanford L. Bohrer, Miami, for appellees.

Before NESBITT, BASKIN and FERGUSON, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

Plaintiffs, police officers, brought this action against defendants, a newspaper, its reporter and an editor, for defamation. In support of their motion for summary judgment, defendants presented substantial evidence that the publication of statements given by credible citizens questioning the officers' courage in the line of duty was without malice. In response to the motion, plaintiffs failed to produce any evidence that publication of the statements...

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