Defamation Case Tossed After Getting Away With Murder

[The Straight Story]

Defamation Case Tossed After Getting Away With Murder


WASHINGTON (CN) - A federal judge has brushed off a lawsuit against the Washington Post and the Department of Justice by a well-to-do Baltimore man who wrote a manuscript about getting away with the murder of his father.

William Bond beat his father to death with a hammer in 1981. As a 17-year-old minor, he pleaded guilty in juvenile court and was released after several months of psychological treatment at Sheppard Pratt in Baltimore.

In the 1990s, Bond authored a manuscript about a juvenile boy who kills his father, explaining that it is a "highly embellished" and "fictionalized" version of his past.

The Washington Post detailed Bond's unsuccessful struggle to preserve control of that manuscript, and what became of that troubled juvenile, in 2001. Bond became a tennis instructor, ping-pong enthusiast and ex-husband to a wealthy heiress, according to the Post.

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Representing himself, Bond claims that the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland failed to prosecute alleged crimes he brought to their attention, using Bond's juvenile past as an excuse to discriminate against him. He says the Post's 2009 follow-up piece was defamatory, violated the terms of their agreement and caused him emotional distress.

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