Mississippi high court upholds camera ban

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The Supreme Court of Mississippi found in Associated Press v. Bost that found that the exclusion of video and still cameras from the murder trial of Byron de la Beckwith was constitutional because the statutes allowing such action were rationally related to a legitimate government interest. The interests cited were decorum, truth-seeking and a fair trial. The electronic media had argued that it was being denied equal access. Chief Justice Armis Hawkins believed the statute discriminated against electronic media but voted with the majority based on fair trial grounds.

Laws, regulations and rules, Mississippi, Cameras in the courtroom, Cameras in court, Beckwith, Byron de la

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Jury not prejudiced by pretrial publicity of murder confession

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The US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled, in DeLisle v. Rivers, that a federal district court correctly went ahead with a criminal defendant's trial even though five jurors had heard an inadmissible confession. Lawrence DeLisle was convicted in Michigan in 1990 of murdering his four children and of attempting to murder his wife. The Court found that DeLisle failed to produce any evidence of actual juror hostility toward him.

United States, Confession (Law), Confessions (Law)

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