Gonzalez v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “what makes this case especially notorious is that a large number of the public watched a video of Appellant and the co-defendant committing the offense. It cannot be disputed that seeing a video of a person being robbed and gunned down is markedly different and likely to have a greater emotional impact on the viewer than reading a newspaper account about the offense and the police investigation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gonzalez v. State

2. “First, the nature of the publicity is quite different since potential jurors had the opportunity to watch a videotape of the actual crime being committed. Second, a large number of the potential jurors in the instant case could not set aside their opinion. This strongly indicates that pretrial publicity resulted in actual, identifiable prejudice to Appellant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gonzalez v. State