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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Free press and fair trial"”.
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Do age and media type influence the effects of pretrial publicity on verdicts?
Concerns about Pretrial Publicity (PTP) have grown with the rise of the internet and social media, leading to a near impossibility of selecting a jury that can ignore PTP and focus only on facts presented at trial. Previous research has shown participants exposed to negative PTP were more likely to …
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Can jury instructions reduce the negative impact of pretrial publicity?
The increasing prevalence of pretrial publicity (PTP), media coverage of a case that occurs prior to a trial, raises concerns about fair trials. Jurors may rely on pretrial information rather than trial information to decide the fate of a defendant and may even confuse the sources of the …