Case Studies of Pre- and Midtrial Prejudice in Criminal and Civil Litigation

• Published in: Law and human behavior Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 73 - 105
• Main Author: Vidmar, Neil
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers 01.02.2002; American Psychological Law Society
• Subjects: Case law; Case studies; Civil Law; Civil Rights - legislation & jurisprudence; Communities; Conformity; Criminal Law; Criminal Law - legislation & jurisprudence; Decision making; Defendants; Evidence; Experimentation; Gossip; Guilty verdicts; Human; Humans; Judges & magistrates; judicial system; Juries; juror prejudices; Jurors; Laboratories; Legal Processes; Litigation; Mass Media; Mass Media - legislation & jurisprudence; Plaintiffs; Prejudice; Prejudices; Public Opinion; Simulation; Studies; Trials; Voir dire; United States > US

This paper presents a number of case studies involving pre- and midtrial prejudice in criminal and civil litigation. The cases reveal deficiencies in the way that prejudicial publicity has been conceptualized and operationalized in many simulation experiments. The studies reveal that potential juror...