You mean there's a difference between charged and convicted?
The Winston-Salem Journal reports that North Carolina woman has filed a lawsuit against area morning deejay Jack Murphy, alleging that Murphy made defamatory statements about her on his radio show.
Verla Englert alleges in the lawsuit that Murphy – who does mornings at WKZL-FM – made false statements in April 2005 about her criminal record. The suit also names Dick Broadcasting Co. Inc., which owns the station.
According to the suit, Murphy said that Englert had been convicted eight times for assault with a deadly weapon.
A web site for the North Carolina Department of Correction does not list any convictions for Englert for assault with a deadly weapon. She was charged in 2000 with assault with a deadly weapon, but a prosecutor dismissed the case, records show.
In 2004, she was found guilty of simple assault, a lesser offense than assault with a deadly weapon.
The lawsuit says that Englert sent a letter to the station in June 2005 saying that Murphy's comments were false. The comments, Englert maintains, were not retracted.
Radio Ink, April 24, 2006
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