PREJUDICIAL PUBLICITY

Prejudicial Publicity

Prejudicial Publicity

Sometimes judge will consider the request to change trial venue, away from crime scene. As the rule, jury will be selected from region where process takes place and will be less likely under influence of local media than those from original site.

To overcome damage to pre-publicity, judge may also use imported group of potential jurors. Group of persons, on other, but still relatively nearby counties may be less influenced by publicity about the case (Chesterman 1997). Judges have used this approach in 1979, the court in Chicago, John Wayne Gacy for murder of more than ...