Marion Albert Pruett v. Larry Norris, Marion Albert Pruett v. Larry Norris

How courts have described this case

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• stating that 11-month delay between the crime and the trial dissipated the shock and hostility in the community
• stating that 11-month delay between the crime and the trial dissipated the shock and hostility in the community
• finding that the media attention was “largely unexceptional, perhaps even less pervasive and inflammatory than publicity generated in similar cases,” so that there was no such “circus atmosphere”
• noting that Antiterrorism and Ef fective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Pub.L. No. 104-132,110 Stat. 1214,1218-21 (April 24,1996), increased evidentiary burden on habeas petitioners’ challenges to state court factual findings filed after effective date of Act
• finding no violation when “each juror expressly affirmed that he or she could be impartial and render a verdict based solely on the evidence presented at trial, and nothing in the record suggests otherwise”
• isolated intemperate commentary is not enough, “where for the most part, the reporting appears to have been objective and unemotional”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).