A trial judge’s order barring Lifetime Entertainment from airing a dramatized movie on the murder of a beloved Appellate Division, Third Department, clerk was an “unconstitutional prior restraint on speech,” the Appellate Division, Third Department, held Thursday in a unanimous opinion.
Porco v. Lifetime Entertainment Services, 516390, stemmed from an action brought by Christopher Porco, who was convicted of the November 2004 axe murder of his father and attempted murder of his mother in their suburban Albany home.
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