Court of Appeals of Maryland September 9, 1981, [No. 69, September Term, 1980.] (Gersh v. Ambrose)

Cole, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In 1978 appellee, Lance V. Ambrose, a staff member of the Baltimore City Community Relations Commission (the "Commission”) filed a defamation suit against appellant, Howard Gersh, an Assistant State’s Attorney for Baltimore City, alleging that at a public hearing before the Community Relations Commission Gersh had slanderously accused Ambrose of