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Former baseball player Jay Johnstone sued CBS, NBC and United Press International in Los Angeles County Superior Court for slander and libel, alleging they got the facts of his probation wrong and hurt his income. Last year, Johnstone was sentenced to two years of unsupervised probation and ordered to pay a $300 fine and $50 restitution to the Price Club, where employees accused him of shoplifting, according to court papers. The suit alleges that the defendants gave the impression that he pleaded guilty and was convicted of a crime when in fact he did not enter a plea.
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