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- Title
Pretrial publicity: Effects of admonition and expressing pretrial opinions.
- Authors
Freedman, Jonathan L.; Martin, Christiane K.; Mota, Victor L.
- Abstract
The article presents two studies on the impact of pretrial publicity on mock jurors' post-trial opinions and verdicts. In first study, the instruction coming from the judge either did or did not have a certain admonition in order to ignore information outside the trial. In the second study, pretrial opinions either were or were not provided. Researchers of the first study found that jurors provided with certain admonition were less likely to believe that the defendant was guilty. Researchers of both studies concluded that post-trial effects of pretrial publicity are not strong.
- Subjects
FREE press &; fair trial; MOCK trials; ADMONITION; VERDICTS; FREEDOM of the press; FAIR trial
- Publication
Legal & Criminological Psychology, 1998, Vol 3, Issue 2, p255
- ISSN
1355-3259
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.2044-8333.1998.tb00365.x