One such case involved High Times magazine, which in 1980 described the best vehicles with which to smuggle illegal drugs. Paladin's lawyers have cited some examples of publishers that have come under fire for printing articles or books that might induce crime, but they weren't found liable. If my advice and the proven methods in this book are followed, certainly no one will ever know." The "Hit Man" author says in one passage that "the professional hit man fills a need in society and is, at times, the only alternative for personal justice. "From what we've been told, the book has been selling like hot cakes" since word got out about the Perry case, Marshall said. Marshall, one of the attorneys representing a family suing Paladin, said the publisher won't divulge the real name of the author who wrote "Hit Man." Supreme Court upheld the award Soldier of Fortune stopped publishing personal ads a year later. The magazine appealed the ruling but the U.S. The family of the businessman, Richard Braun, successfully sued the magazine for $4.3 million after Braun was fatally shot in his driveway by a hit man armed with a silencer-fitted MAC-11 machine pistol. Most troubling for Paladin may be a similar wrongful-death case in Alabama, in which the courts found Soldier of Fortune magazine liable for running a "Gun for Hire" advertisement that led to the contract killing in 1985 of an investment businessman. A great many of our customers are Walter Mittys who have never handled explosives or a submachine gun." Lund added: "Such works tend to dissipate rather than stimulate aggressive tendencies and negative energies on the part of readers. The book was not edited for "technical accuracy," he said. Works such as "Hit Man" - written by an unknown author under the pen name "Rex Feral" - are designed "to tease the reader with ambiguity as to whether they are to be taken seriously," Lund said. But in an April 19 court affidavit, he hinted that books such as "Hit Man" aren't meant to be taken seriously. Lund, the president of Paladin Enterprises Inc., couldn't be reached for this article. 2." He paid for the books with a $30 check that bounced, according to court papers.
Perry bought the "Hit Man" manual the year before the killings, along with another Paladin book titled "How to Make a Disposable Silencer, Vol. He was sentenced May 16 to life in prison without possibility of parole, ending the criminal phase of the case.īut in the civil arena, the killings still pose puzzling questions about Paladin's possible role in the crime. Horn, who was Trevor's father, had sought to inherit the boy's $1.7 million trust fund set up with a medical malpractice lawsuit settlement. Perry, who has been sentenced to death, was hired by former Motown Records sound engineer Lawrence T.
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