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KNIGHT-RIDDER v. GREENBERG

119 A.D.2d 68 (1986)

In the Matter of Knight-Ridder Broadcasting, Inc, Respondent, v. Sol Greenberg, as Albany County District Attorney, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

July 31, 1986

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sol Greenberg, District Attorney (George H. Barber of counsel), appellant pro se.

Zubres, D'Agostino & Hoblock (Michael J. Hoblock, Jr., of counsel), and Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (Timothy B. Dyk and Murray A. Indick of counsel), for respondent.

Howard F. Jaeckel and John W. Zucker and others, for CBS, Inc., and others, amici curiae.

WEISS, MIKOLL, YESAWICH, JR., and LEVINE, JJ., concur.

MAIN, J. P.

In February 1986, a news reporter employed by petitioner's Albany television station, WTEN-TV, conducted a taped interview of Donald Bent, whose wife had then been missing for several days. While there were no preconditions to the interview, it is alleged that a portion thereof was conducted under a promise of confidentiality. Approximately one minute of such taped interview was later broadcast on...

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