Negative pretrial publicity makes jurors more likely to see the defendant as _____. When studies assessed if the judge's instructions to disregard the negative publicity make a difference, they found that such instructions _____.

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Negative pretrial publicity tends to bias jurors towards seeing the defendant as guilty, and research has shown that judges' instructions to disregard such publicity often do not effectively remedy this bias.

Negative Pretrial Publicity Makes Jurors More Likely to See the Defendant