Matter of Haskin v. New York State Div. of Hous. & Community Renewal

How courts have described this case

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• finding that “[t]he small size of the Nantucket community [with a population of just over 10,000 permanent residents] weighs in favor of finding local prejudice”
• identifying other possible factors, like size of community, content of news stories, time between peak media coverage and trial, and any evidence from verdict itself, such as acquittal on any charges
• where defendant puts voluntariness of statement at issue, prosecutor may introduce post-Miranda silence to show voluntariness
• “lapse of almost three years between the victim’s death and the trial was likely to have blunted the impact of initial media coverage”
• jury should decide case based on evidence, be free of bias and prejudice, and be \unswayed by any media publicity\ [citation omitted]
• jury should decide case based on evidence, be free of bias and prejudice, and be “unswayed by any media publicity” [citation omitted]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).