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DATE: FRIDAY, June 4, 1993                   TAG: 9306040200
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: SAN FRANCISCO                                LENGTH: Short

`NEW YORKER' STORY LIBEL TRIAL ENDS IN MISTRIAL

A federal jury found that a journalist misquoted and libeled a psychoanalyst in a 1983 New Yorker article, but the trial ended inconclusively Thursday when the jury deadlocked on damages.

A lawyer for psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson said a second trial was likely and he was inclined to ask that all issues be retried, including the jury's finding of libel against writer Janet Malcolm.

A lawyer for The New Yorker said he would ask that the magazine be removed from the case because of the jury's separate decision that it was not responsible.

The quotes the jury found false and libelous included a statement Malcolm attributed to Masson that he would have turned Sigmund Freud's house into "a place of sex, women, fun," had he become director of the Freud Archives.

Masson, 52, said he felt vindicated: "I'm glad that eight people said, `You didn't say those things, she fabricated them,' " - Associated Press 


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