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Right to a Fair Trial: Boston Marathon Bombing

Right to a Fair Trial: Boston Marathon Bombing

Q After reading the Rolling Stone article on the Boston bomber, please read the following: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/even-boston-marathon-bomber-deserved-unbiased-jurors (Links to an external site.) Do you agree or disagree with this analysis? Why? Based on what you've read in the textbook, are there other right to a fair trial issues possible in this case? How might these have been remedied? Why is the right to a fair trial important to protect? Please cite your sources and use the textbook as a reference. Be sure to read and respond to your classmates' posts as well.

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Sometimes the perspectives of the public about a certain event of incident can affect the decisions made by the jurors. The media’s duty is to present the fact in an unbiased way so that the public can also view the incident from an unbiased perspective. Even in the cases of bombings and terrorism, the decision of the justice system should not be influenced by emotions or perceptions about them. I believe that even the Boston bombers should have had the rights to have a fair and unbiased trial because in many cases people are framed which will make them look like criminals.