Ramirez v. Bank of N.Y. Mellon

How courts have described this case

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• noting that defendant is not presumptively deprived of his due process rights if juror is exposed “to information about a state defendant’s prior convictions or to news accounts of the crime with which he is charged”
• discussing Irvin v. Dowd, 366 U.S. 717, 722, 81 S.Ct. 1639, 1642, 6 L.Ed.2d 751 (1961)
• refusing to set aside the jurors' declarations of impartiality where the voir dire testimony did not reflect the wave of community hostility present in Irvin
• \Qualified jurors need not * * * be totally ignorant of the facts and issues\
• massive publicity insisted that defendant was guilty; veniremen’s names were published and prospec tive jurors were inundated by calls and letters
• no presumption of unfair prejudice where news articles concerning defendant had appeared more than seven months before trial

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