"That kind of prejudicial publicity makes it difficult for a jury to concentrate on what happens in the courtroom."
You couldn't move for a prejudicial pretrial publicity on the basis of an unflattering picture.
The court based its ruling on what it calls a "tidal wave of prejudicial publicity."
The court ruled Thursday that prejudicial publicity had eliminated the chance of the police officers' getting a fair trial in the Bronx.
Mr. Kunstler said he would protest what he termed a barrage of prejudicial publicity.
In 1966, he had the case overturned by the United States Supreme Court on the ground of prejudicial pre-trial publicity.
It was the first state conviction to be reversed mainly due to prejudicial publicity.
They include lengthy previous deliberations, the risk of illness to a juror, and the threat of a juror's being exposed to prejudicial publicity.
The reader will note that the word "guilt" is not bandied about here, because both reader and writer are already steeped in prejudicial publicity.
"There are many ways of dealing with potentially prejudicial pretrial publicity, but a gag order on the press isn't one of them."