the foreign press, all members of the foreign media were barred from the courtroom. As Paul Teale was not scheduled to go on trial for the slayings until sometime in 1995, the ban was issued in order to prevent details from reaching the ears of potential jurors in Ontario and prejudicing them against Teale.
The Washington Post article was reprinted by several U.S. newspapers and Canadians began smuggling copies across the border. On Sunday, November 28, 1993, the Buffalo News reprinted the story. By November 29, Canadian customs officials and police had confiscated 187 copies of the paper and arrested or spoken to 61 drivers. Vehicles were stopped at the border and the drivers of those containing more than one copy of the paper were arrested on the grounds that they were intending to violate the publication ban. After their arrests, the drivers were released without charge, although their copies of the newspaper were confiscated.
Ironically, Teale was opposed to the ban because, unbeknownst to the Canadian public, Karla allegedly
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