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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
There are lots but the general concept is "trial by media". You don't want the media to effect how the public and by proxy a jury or defense lawyer might view a defendant. In this example most people who saw those initial interviews will believe he's a lying, guilty, scum bag. That's no good for his chance for an impartial trial and our desire for justice to be served. I'm not a lawyer by any stretch and so I might be wrong. Our in house legal counsel could speak to it much better than me. But when I saw those videos of him I was like man, that's not good.
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IDK, seems like those interviews could make a defense more challenging, but I can't see them doing anything but helping the prosecution.
Also not a lawyer, so who knows.