A judge says former New York prosecutor Linda Fairstein might have a valid defamation case against Netflix and Ava DuVernay.
, which DuVernay directed and co-wrote. The series tells the story of the Central Park Five case. In 1989, five black and Hispanic teens were convicted of raping a jogger in Central Park, New York, while out “wilding.”
Author Linda Fairstein attends the Twelfth Annual Authors In Kind Literary Luncheon benefitting God’s Love We Deliver at The Metropolitan Club on April 14, 2015, in New York City. Fairstein, Judge Castel wrote, maintains that she “lacked the authority to instruct N.Y.P.D. members on interrogation techniques or to direct them to round up suspects, and that she never did so.”
This is the key: “Notably, Fairstein does not complain that she was defamed through the use of a fictionalized composite character,” the judge said. “Her claims are directed to words and deeds attributed to her by name.”
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