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Struck By The Falling Bullet: The Continuing Need For Definitive Standards In Media Coveage Of Criminal Proceedings, John A. Walton
Struck By The Falling Bullet: The Continuing Need For Definitive Standards In Media Coveage Of Criminal Proceedings, John A. Walton
Cleveland State Law Review
When I look at the impact of the media coverage on the Sheppard trial with hindsight, I view that type of media circus as similar to firing a gun into the air. Similarly, in most cases, media coverage of a crime generates some attention but does not impede the administration of justice. Media coverage of criminal court proceedings has no definite standards and parameters. It is difficult to predict when that coverage will expand into a media circus and even more difficult to know, prospectively, what impact the circus will have on the defendant's trial. When I was visiting the …
Influence Of Media And Technology: Changing Roles And Responsibilities, Terry Gilbert
Influence Of Media And Technology: Changing Roles And Responsibilities, Terry Gilbert
Cleveland State Law Review
High profile cases are therefore media driven. What happens in the courtroom is a reflection of the attitudes of the larger society. Such was the case then and it is the case now. From the cases of Lizzy Borden, the Lindburgh kidnapping, O.J. Simpson, and Sheppard, anyone who thinks justice is completely blind to the influences of popular opinion is blind themselves. All too often justice is a function of political culture. The courtroom is nothing but a vehicle to carry out the popular will, often with lynch mob mentality. Despite the attempts to control this phenomenon, and certainly the …