media right v fair trial rights

 

Your assignment: 500 + words. MUST HAVE IN TEXT CITATIONS THAT MATCH REFERENCES

  • What is your definition of an “impartial jury”?
  • What remedies for securing an impartial jury do you think are the  best to use when intense and widespread press coverage occurs, as in the  Rodney King and O.J. Simpson cases?
  • Do you think the press should or should not be allowed access to each of the following? Explain your answer in each instance.

  1. pretrial hearing to decide if certain evidence is legally admissible
  2. preliminary hearing evidence consisting of photographs showing mutilated victims
  3. trial testimony of a rape victim
  4. trial testimony of a child-abuse victim
  5. sequestered jurors
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