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5 pages in length. Media coverage has historically proven to be both a blessing and a curse where the judicial system is concerned. The extent to which print, radio and television reporting serve to inform the public as the trial progresses is both grand and far-reaching; that a fine line separates the beneficial element of such coverage from the one detrimental to investigators' decisions speaks to the inherent disadvantage to a criminal case having a high profile status. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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television reporting serve to inform the public is both grand and far-reaching; that a fine line separates the beneficial element of such coverage from the one detrimental to investigators decisions
speaks to the inherent disadvantage to a criminal case having a high profile status. "Without question, high-profile criminal cases receive a great amount of attention from the media...Over the
past ten years, the media has brought many cases into our living rooms through extensive television and print coverage of high-profile criminal trials...Depending on the story the media relays to
the public, the intense media coverage surrounding high-profile criminal cases can either destroy a defendants chances for a fair trial11 or ultimately benefit the defendant" (Morris, 2003).
Issues surrounding the presence of the press inside the courtroom and the concern over investigators decisions dates back to the turn of the century when
the controversy addressed legal concerns with the "media circus" (Linton, 1993) at the 1935 trial of Bruno Hauptmann. The trial, in which Hauptmann was accused of kidnapping and murdering
the Lindbergh baby, carved the way for the American Bar Association (ABA) to "unanimously adopt" (Linton, 1993) Canon 35, a law implementing the complete ban of courtroom photography and radio
broadcasting. It was some fifteen years later that the ban was to also include the use of television cameras, as well. Based on the assumption that televised trials
lead to the disturbance of ones constitutional rights to a fair and impartial trial, the Supreme Court passed down a ruling in 1965 that reinforced the prior ABA decision to
ban cameras from the courtroom, citing in particular the case of Estes v. Texas (Linton, 1993). Canon 35 was revised yet again in
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