Richard Wayne Snell v. A.L. Lockhart, Richard Wayne Snell v. A.L. Lockhart

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• refusing to presume prejudice and requiring petitioner to show actual prejudice despite very thorough media coverage
• refusing to presume prejudice and requiring petitioner to show actual prejudice despite very thorough media coverage
• constitutional error resulting from pretrial prejudice cohld not be presumed where 18 of 49 potential jurors (37 percent) expressed bias against defendant
• pretrial publicity did not prejudice jury despite expert testimony that it was “as great or greater than the publicity in virtually any other trial they had seen”
• constitutional error resulting from pretrial prejudice could not be presumed where 18 of 49 potential jurors (37 percent) expressed bias against defendant
• pretrial publicity did not prejudice jury despite expert testimony that it was “as great or greater than the publicity in virtually any other trial they had seen”

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