Wolfe v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““We thus do not have here the totality of circumstances which warrant a finding of such a probability of unfairness (80 H.L.R. 124 (1967); 62 N.W.L.R. 89 (1967); Ill.Law Forum (1966) p. 1063), as was found by the Supreme Court to exist in Sheppard v. Maxwell, 384 U.S. 333 , 86 S.Ct. 1507 , 16 L.Ed.2d 600 (1966); Estes v. State of Texas, 381 U.S. 532 , 85 S.Ct. 1628 , 14 L.Ed.2d 543 (1965), and Irvin v. Dowd, 366 U.S. 717 , 81 S.Ct. 1639 , 6 L.Ed. 751 (1961); and Marshall v. United States, 360 U.S. 310 , 79 S.Ct. 1171 , 3 L.Ed.2d 1250 (1959), in all of which pre-trial publicity was only one of the factors considered.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Collins v. Commonwealth