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40 Am. U. L. Rev. 631 (1990-1991)
Who is an Impartial Juror in an Age of Mass Media

handle is hein.journals/aulr40 and id is 649 raw text is: ARTICLES WHO IS AN IMPARTIAL JUROR IN AN AGE OF MASS MEDIA? NEWTON N. MINOW* FRED H. CATE** TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ................................................ 632 I. The Evolution of the Criminal Jury and Early Efforts to Control the Impact of the Press on Jury Selection ...... 637 A. The Early History of the Criminal Jury ............. 637 B. Response of the United States Supreme Court ..... 640 II. Current Judicial Remedies ............................. 646 A. Change of Venue .................................. 646 B. Continuance ....................................... 647 C. Judicial Instructions ............................... 648 D. Jury Deliberation .................................. 649 E. Voir Dire .......................................... 649 III. The Concept of an Impartial Jury in an Age of Mass Communications ....................................... 654 A. The Role of Juries ................................. 654 B. The Role of Jurors ................................ 656 C. The Role of Social Science ........................ 660 Conclusion ................................................. 662 * J.D. (1950), B.S. (1949) Northwestern University. Newton N. Minow is a partner in the Chicago office of Sidley & Austin, Director of The Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy Studies of Northwestern University, and Annenberg University Pro- fessor. He is a former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. ** J.D. (1987) Stanford Law School, A.B. (1984) Stanford University. Fred H. Cate is an Associate Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington and a Senior Fellow of The Annenberg Washington Program. Together with Mr. Minow, he convened The Annenberg Washington Program's forum, Selecting ImpartialJuries: Must Ignorance Be a Virtue in Our Search forJustice?, Washington, D.C. (1990). The authors would like to thank ProfessorJ. Alexander Tanford, Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington, for his thoughtful in- sights, and William H. Davis, Jennifer C. Jordan, and Oren Rosenthal for their very able re- search assistance. The authors alone are responsible for the assessments and conclusions herein.

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