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51	Identification of a suspect before being charged: legitimate freedom of speech or a threat to a fair trial? Burgess, Craig Neilson January 2005 (has links) Identification of a person suspected of a heinous crime before being charged risks prejudicing a fair trial. Present laws place this type of publicity outside the reach of sub judice contempt. This thesis argues there should be a change in the law of sub judice contempt making it an offence for the media to publish the fact that a person is under investigation until the person has been charged. Contempt of court subjudice naming suspects before charge influence on jurors memory freedom of speech open justice public interest public safety - fair trial preferred approach
52	The Impact of Pretrial Publicity on Perceptions of Guilt Drew, Ryan M. January 2015 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Ninety-eight empirical effects examining the impact of pretrial publicity (PTP) on perceptions of guilt were meta-analytically analyzed. As hypothesized, results suggested that anti-defendant PTP was associated with increased perceptions of defendant guilt, whereas pro-defendant PTP was associated with decreased perceptions of defendant guilt. Additionally, several moderator variables were examined. The results suggested that the size of the effect of PTP is dependent upon several variables, including the level of the analysis (jury-level vs. juror level), the type of crime involved in the case, the nature of the information provided to the participants in the control condition, the reality of the case used in the study, the delay between PTP exposure and the collection of the verdict preference, the medium of the PTP presentation, the publication status of the data source, and the outcome measure utilized. Pretrial Publicity PTP Media Juror Jury Guilt Culpability Jury -- United States -- Decision making Mass media -- Research -- United States Guilt (Law) -- Research Attitude (Psychology) Law -- Psychological aspects Jury instructions -- United States Verdicts -- Decision making

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Identification of a suspect before being charged: legitimate freedom of speech or a threat to a fair trial?

The Impact of Pretrial Publicity on Perceptions of Guilt