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0450 After the arrest of his brother for criminal homicide, plaintiff became a public figure by making statements to the press concerning the prosecution and by furnishing the press with photographs, and in a defamation lawsuit is therefore required to show actual malice; the statute concerning a demand for correction and restricting a defamation plaintiff to special damages unless the correction is made does not apply in an action against an individual defendant whose published letter to a newspaper editor contained defamatory statements.CitationDENNEY v LAWRENCE (Identical Twin) 22 CA4 927 [See: Dresbach v Doubleday 518 FS 1285; Street v NBC 645 F2 1227; Mosesian v McClatchy 233 CA3 1685; Gertz v Robert Welch 418 US 323; CivC 48a]
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