The issue focused largely on the way in which an American media had changed the way it covered a relatively quiet criminal case in France in the early 1980s. The case was a civil suit by a woman who had alleged that a professor and a professor of law had raped her as a student in the early 1970s. They were arrested for that crime in 1982.


Their lawyer was Reza Mazandarian, who challenged the French judicial system by arguing that the alleged crime occurred in France rather than in the