United States v. John C. Herring, A/K/A Scooter

How courts have described this case

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• stating that \cases involving questions of prejudicial publicity necessarily tend to turn on their own facts\
• conviction reversed because jury had been exposed to newspaper report that life of government witness had been threatened
• judge must interrogate jurors to determine whether jurors were prejudiced by their exposure to excessive media publicity
• Instruction cautioning jury to \not pay attention to anything outside the courtroom\ inadequate to prevent prejudice
• direct appeal consciously applying due process principles

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).