She is repped by Echo Lake Entertainment and Independent Talent in the UK. Woodcock will next be seen in the UK series “Tell Me Everything” and the upcoming limited series “Flowers in the Attic: The Origin.” She is also set to star in the feature “The Colour Room” alongside Matthew Goode and Phoebe Dyvenor. His smile and sex appeal open doors, but his real superpower is his intuition. Kerr will play Piet, tutor to a very troubled child and an extreme empath, with the confidence to back himself against the odds. “They will be a lot less reluctant to write articles that are critical of public officials.Woodcock will play Constance, the most magnetic girl in Amsterdam and the undisputed queen of the city’s gilded youth. “It will scare some smaller newspapers,” he said. “They don’t understand the legalities.”ĭufresne said eight out of nine cases generally tend to win on appeal. “Juries make decisions based on emotions,” he said. Marcel Dufresne, an assistant professor of journalism for the University of Connecticut and an expert witness who testified for the Journal Inquirer, said libel cases are too complicated for a layperson to understand. Journalism experts said the verdict could have a chillingĮffect on small newspapers, but believed the case could be won on appeal. I’m confident that this verdict will be reversed on appeal - as most libel verdicts against newspapers are.” “Unfortunately libel lawsuits get complicated and jurors can be misled. “I wrote an important and accurate story about the actions of a public official,” Puleo said. Puleo, contacted after the decision came down in Superior Court, defended the article. Woodcock’s laywer maintained during the trial that the story and others following it were an effort by the newspaper to discredit John Woodcock, who unsuccessfully sought a fifth term later that year.Ĭarla Woodcock was quoted in the stories as saying she had made the suggestions to ease traffic in the area and that any benefit to Sheridan was coincidental.Īccording to Barrett, the jury found that the newspaper had libeled Woodcock by falsely characterizing her as having “urged” the zoning commission to adopt her suggestions. The story reported that Woodcock suggested alterations to a subdivision proposal by Manchester developer Bellock - alterations Bellock claimed would have benefited Sheridan, who owned some abutting land. The libel case centered on a June 23, 1988, Journal Inquirer story by Puleo regarding Carla Woodcock’s actions as a planning and zoning commission member and their effect on property owned by Robert Sheridan, a South Windsor landowner and business associate of Woodcock’s husband’s family. “I just hope that the Journal Inquirer got the message, so that this type of thing won’t happen again,” Barrett said. The Journal Inquirer circulates to about 45,000 readers in north central Connecticut and suburbs east of Hartford. “It is unfortunate that thousands of dollars of taxpayers’ money, not to mention our own resources, and everyone’s time and energy have been wasted on this frivolous lawsuit because a couple of failed politicians had egos that could not stand the same sort of criticism all other politicians have to face as a matter of democracy,” she said in the statement. “We are confident of winning on appeal,” Ellis said in a prepared statement. erred by excluding much of the newspaper’s evidence from the trial. “It was very reckless.”Įlizabeth Ellis, publisher of the Journal Inquirer, an evening newspaper that promotes itself as aggressive and hard-hitting, said she believed Judge William M. “It was like a bombing, over and over again,” she said. Salgado described the newspaper’s series of articles about Carla Woodcock as relentless. “The fact that you believed me means so much to me,” Carla Woodcock replied.
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