Studies testing the effectiveness of judge's instructions to the jury to disregard pretrial publicity have found:

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Studies have consistently found that judge's instructions to disregard pretrial publicity have little to no effect on jurors' decision-making. In other words, jurors are not able to completely ignore the media accounts they have been exposed to when deciding the verdict. This is true for both criminal and civil cases.

Studies Testing the Effectiveness of Judge's Instructions to the Jury