From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>
Date: Wed, 5 May 93 08:59:31 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: 'zines
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Bill_Stewart(HOY002)1305 says:
> Peter Zenger was a publisher in New York during colonial times.
> He was arrested for publishing Bad Things about the King, which was illegal.

Bill is normally excruciatingly accurate, but in this case he is
slightly off -- he was charged with slandering the Royal Governor in
his newspaper. His defense was that his statements were true -- which
was not a defense under the law in question. The jury decided it was
sufficient, however. The rest of what Bill said was substantially
accurate.

Perry