Patton v. Yount

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1984-06-26

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Justice Powell delivered the opinion of the Court. This case brings before us a claim that pretrial publicity so infected a state criminal trial as to deny the defendant his Sixth Amendment right to an “impartial jury.” On April 28, 1966, the body of Pamela Rimer, an 18-year-old high school student, was found in a wooded area near her home in Luthersburg, Clearfield County, Pa. There were <page-numb…

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