What Did Freedman and Burke Find in Their Study of the Effect

question 30

Multiple Choice

What did Freedman and Burke find in their study of the effect of pretrial publicity in the Paul Bernardo case?

• A)only a weak relation existed between the amount of information heard by mock jurors and the ratings of guilt or verdicts either before or after the trial incident
• B)only a limited negative effect existed on the verdict due to pretrial publicity
• C)a significant relation existed between the amount of information heard by mock jurors and the ratings of guilt or verdicts either before or after the trial account
• D)a significant relationship existed, but only for the male mock jurors

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