Effects of prejudicial pretrial publicity from physical and witness evidence on mock jurors' decision making

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2132-2148

  Shaw, Jerry I ^a   Skolnick, Paul ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 13544257396     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2004.tb02693.x     Document Type: Review

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