Attorneys for the Crookston Daily Times newspaper and a Crookston police officer went to the Minnesota Supreme Court today (Tues) in a case that pits an officer's reputation against the newspaper's right to report on a public meeting. Minnesota Public Radio's Patty Marsicano reports: (In March of 1998, the Crookston Daily Times published an article that quoted a local citizen who spoke at a city council meeting. The citizen, Dennis McDaniel, told the council that the city's young people have a lot of problems, including drugs, and that they wouldn't have such big drug problems if Crookston police officer Gerardo Moreno stopped dealing drugs out of the back of his squad car. Moreno did not attend the city council meeting, but he filed a defamation lawsuit against the newspaper when it printed McDaniel's comments.