Prejudicial Pretrial Publicity

[RESEARCH] When does pretrial publicity get in the way of a fair trial? How can it be assessed?

See Rich Curtner & Melissa Kassier, "Not in Our Town": Pretrial Publicity, Presumed Prejudice, and Change of Venue in Alaska: Public Opinion Surveys as a Tool to Measure the Impact of Prejudicial Pretrial Publicity, 22 Alaska L. Rev. 255 (2005). Curtner is the Federal Public Defender for the District of Alaska; Kassier is a 3L at Case Western. The article discusses the law generally, focusing on two cases where the public defender used public opinion polls to show the impact of news coverage before the trials.

Categories: pretrial-publicity, juries, surveys, venue, criminal-law,