Assignment:
Create a 500 + words:
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.
pretrial hearing to decide if certain evidence is legally admissible
preliminary hearing evidence consisting of photographs showing mutilated victims
trial testimony of a rape victim
trial testimony of a child-abuse victim
sequestered jurors