PREJUDICIAL PUBLICITY

By SovConn | July 26, 2014

prejudicial publicity. Extensive media attention devoted to an upcoming civil or criminal trial. • Under the Due Process Clause, extensive coverage of a criminal trial may deprive the defendant of a fair trial. [Cases: Criminal Law 633(1); Federal Civil Procedure 1951; Trial 20.C.J.S. Criminal Law §§ 564, 1134, 1140, 1145–1149, 1191; Trial § 97.]

[Blacks Law 8th]

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