A journey into the unknown: Pretrial publicity and capital cases

Autor:	Steven M. Chermak, Marla Sandys
Rok vydání:	1996
Předmět:	Presentation State (polity) Communication media_common.quotation_subject Capital (economics) Political science Law Publicity media_common Newspaper
Zdroj:	Communication Law and Policy. 1:533-577
ISSN:	1532-6926 1081-1680
DOI:	10.1080/10811689609368615
Popis:	This article examines issues related to pretrial publicity's role in the free press‐fair trial debate. First, the article provides a comprehensive review of existing research examining the effects of pretrial publicity on case outcomes. Second, it examines the presentation of prejudicial publicity items in a sample of newspaper stories on capital cases, identifying the types of factual and emotional publicity presented and suggesting areas that need to be more closely scrutinized in future research. The article concludes that cases that ultimately result in sentences of death receive both more and different types of pretrial publicity than cases that result in lesser sentences. The current state of empirical pretrial publicity knowledge, and the presentation of death cases, are discussed as they relate to the balancing of First and Sixth amendment rights.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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