Studies Testing the Effectiveness of Judge's Instructions to the Jury

question 1

Multiple Choice

Studies testing the effectiveness of judge's instructions to the jury to disregard pretrial publicity have found:

• A) no effect of such instructions on jurors' decision-making in passing a guilty verdict.
• B) that jurors were able to completely ignore the media accounts they had been exposed to.
• C) jurors able to disregard pretrial publicity in civil cases only.
• D) jurors able to disregard pretrial publicity in murder cases only.

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