BOSTON AP – Massachusetts’ highest court on Monday upheld a $2 million verdict against the Boston Herald won by a Superior Court judge who said the newspaper libelously depicted him as soft on crime and insensitive to the suffering of a 14-year-old rape victim.
Judge Ernest Murphy argued that a Herald reporter misquoted him as telling lawyers involved in the case: “Tell her to get over it.” Murphy denied ever making the statement, and a jury in 2005 found that the newspaper had libeled Murphy him in a series of articles.
