A malicious, defamatory statement in a permanent form, rendering the maker liable to criminal prosecution.
Example sentencesExamples
- Journalists said that there were too many criminal libel suits against reporters.
- Many people have argued that criminal libel laws are unconstitutional, but the Supreme Court has never so held.
- Public nuisance and criminal libel have been cited as common law crimes of strict liability.
- He has chosen instead to go the way of criminal libel which carries a jail term.
- This would make them categorically protected, against criminal libel prosecution or civil libel lawsuits.