PREJUDICIAL PUBLICITY

prejudicial publicity. Extensive media attention devoted to an upcoming civil or criminal trial. • Under the Due Process Clause, extensive coverage of a criminal trial may deprive the defendant of a fair trial. [Cases: Criminal Law 633(1); Federal Civil Procedure 1951; Trial 20. C.J.S. Criminal Law §§ 564, 1134, 1140, 1145–1149, 1191; Trial § 97.]