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Lee 1 Wei Lee Professor Belyi ENC 1101 08M 28 November 2023 Annotated Bibliography/Thesis Thesis:An unbiased jury is the best kind of jury. However, due to media interference it is now becoming substantially harder to find an unbiased jury. Pretrial publicity (PTP) a criminal and civil case under media coverage. This pretrial publicity has now infected our legal justice system and has caused bias and injustice within the jury causing a false or unjust legal verdict. Pretrial publicity has detrimental effects on the judicial process by influencing the jury’s decision to make unbiased legal verdicts. It has fostered a bias perception among the jurors, compromised the right to a fair trial, and compromised the defendants right to an impartial trial. Annotated Bibliography Bakhshay, Shirin., and Haney, Craig. “The Media’s Impact on the Right to a Fair Trial: A Content Analysis of Pretrial Publicity in Capital Cases.” Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, vol. 24, no. 3, 2018, pp. 326–340. EBSCOhost, DOI: 10.1037/law0000174 Bakhshay and Haney analyzed newspapers that spanned a 26- year period (1979 through 2005) that had forms of pretrial publicity included in them. They analyzed that 75% of the articles contained negative pretrial publicity that used extreme, shocking, or emotional language. By contrast only 19% of the articles they analyzed contended a “positive” pretrial publicity or statement that would favor the defendant. They then listed the outcome of cases described in the
Lee 2 newspapers. In these cases, exposure to media coverage has been shown to have a prejudicial impact on potential jurors’ attitudes toward criminal defendant. The use of this article will help provide a cause on how pretrial publicity occurs and how media coverage affects the outcome of the list of cases described in the newspapers. Kramer, Geoffrey P., et al. “Pretrial Publicity, Judicial Remedies, and Jury Bias.” Law and Human Behavior, vol. 14, no. 5, 1990, pp. 409–38. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01044220. Kramer, Kerr, and Carroll provided surveys of public opinion following extensive news coverage in cases. They found that much of the public opinion had negative pretrial publicity towards the case and it induced bias to the jury verdicts causing a majority voting for guilty. The article had also provided solutions to remedy prejudicial pretrial publicity such as: vior dire and jury deliberation. This article can provide information on studies and surveys toward extensive media coverage in cases, as well as provide a solution to the remedy the problem. Ruva, Christine L., and Anthony E. Coy. “Your Bias Is Rubbing Off on Me: The Impact of Pretrial Publicity and Jury Type on Guilt Decisions, Trial Evidence Interpretation, and Impression Formation.” Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, vol. 26, no. 1, 2020, pp. 22– 35. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000220. Ruva and Coy researched the influence of media coverage of criminal or pretrial publicity on the jury’s deliberations of court cases. They provide a series of tests in which participants were split into multiple groups, some being subjected to pretrial publicity and others being in no pretrial publicity conditions. Using this article will help to provide data research collected of court cases
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