Journalism and justice in the Oklahoma City bombing trials /
Nye examines the fair trial/free press issues in one of America's most infamous criminal cases - the Oklahoma City bombing. The trials of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were the first, and to date only, federal criminal trials conducted with live, closed-circuit cameras in the courtroom. Mor...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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El Paso :
LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC,
2014.
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Colección: | Law and society (New York, N.Y.)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Background: two centuries of precedent
- Attorney advocacy in the press
- Cameras in the courts
- The crime and the "creeps"
- Sanctuary in the jungle
- "Demonized" defendants
- Solemnity and dignity
- "We needed a body count"
- A strip search of their psyches
- The trial of Terry Nichols
- Examining the issues
- Conclusions.