Judges, Juries and Prejudicial Publicity

The criminal justice system has long held the view that judges are more capable than jurors of disregarding inadmissible prejudicial material. One consequence of this is the differential treatment of judges and jurors in respect of actual or potential exposure, via conventional or social media, to publicity which is prejudicial to a defendant. This article examines psycho-legal research findings which undermine the assumption upon which this differential treatment of judge and jury is based. It then identifies a number of questions which merit further attention in light of these findings

Criminology · Political science · Publicity · Jury Decision Making Processes · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Legal Education and Practice Innovations · Psychology

• Differential or deferential to media? The effect of prejudicial publicity on judge or jury

  Open Access•Rebecca McEwen, John Eldridge et al.•The International Journal of…•2018

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