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Journalism and justice in the Oklahoma City bombing trials
- Author
- Nye, Chad F., 1970- author.
- Title
- Journalism and justice in the Oklahoma City bombing trials / Chad F. Nye.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- El Paso : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2014.
- Description
- vii, 272 pages ; 23 cm.
- Uniform series
- Law and society (New York, N.Y.)
- Notes
- Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oklahoma, 2011, issued under title: Fair Trial/Free Press issues in the Federal Criminal Trials of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- 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.
- Subject headings
- McVeigh, Timothy--Trials, litigation, etc. Nichols, Terry, 1955---Trials, litigation, etc. Trials (Terrorism)--Oklahoma. Trials (Terrorism)--Colorado--Denver. Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995. Free press and fair trial--United States.
- ISBN
- 9781593327033 (hardcover : alk. paper) 159332703X (hardcover : alk. paper)