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blamed other doctors at the hospital of framing
Jascalevich to cover up their own ineptitude and charged that Farber had conspired with prosecutors to advance their respective careers by pointing the finger of blame at Jascalevich. After Brown subpoenaed the reporter, Farber testified in the case but
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was willing to release him once arrangements were made for making restitution to the survivors and in 1980 assigned
Trautwein responsibility for setting the amounts. Trautwein refused to do so, saying, "It would be a gruesome, illogical, self-evident act of futility to order the restoration of the
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when he refused to turn over thousands of pages of the reporter's notes that the defense had requested, citing a compelling right to protect the identity of the sources used in the articles from individuals who had spoken to him with the expectation that their confidence would be maintained.
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wrote a series of articles that exposed the cases, with the public attention and outcry leading the Bergen County
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victims' lives." Without the restitution arrangements, Trantino's parole had been rejected and he remained in jail beyond
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was brought to trial. The cases had occurred in the mid-1960s and the Bergen County
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in contempt for refusing to turn over these investigative notes and held the reporter involved in jail for 40 days, triggering a separate set of cases on the limits of
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cited how "Farber's case roused journalists out of their complacency", noting that "Going to jail for more than a month is significant in anyone's eyes."
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