The Trials of Public Trials
Joanna Snyder doesn’t want you to read this story. The 47-year-old repeat defendant told a Salem, Mass., Superior Court that news coverage of her many arrests and trials “upsets” her and her 19-year-old daughter. Newspaper stories have detailed charges of identity fraud, forgery, larceny, and drug dealing; one story had even noted a resemblance between her plea for leniency in 2010 and her plea for leniency in 2004. “Every time she writes about me, she puts the whole thing in,” she complained about the reporter. Snyder thus asked a judge to order the reporter not to write about her. “I have no authority to control the press,” said the judge, citing the First Amendment right of freedom of the press. Replied Snyder: “So if I took an article on her?” (AC/Salem News) ...Perfect: then she’d look stupid in the paper without a middleman.Original Publication Date: 02 October 2011
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
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