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Times Pays After Misidentifying Athlete | Wilmington News
An Alabama jury delivered a stunning verdict against The New York Times, awarding former college basketball player Kai Spears $9.25 million after finding the paper defamed him by wrongly identifying him as present at a fatal shooting. The error, made in a January 2023 report by sportswriter Billy Witz, linked Spears to the death of 23-year-old Jamea Harris — a misidentification the Times only acknowledged after Spears sued. Despite contradicting evidence from Spears’s father and the athletic director, the Times defended its reporting as an honest mistake. The jury disagreed, siding with…
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