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...said the press can be held in "criminal contempt" if this law is violated and cited the instance when one newspaper described an accused murderer as a human vampire who drank the blood of his victims." He called television coverage of Lee Harvey Oawald dreadful...
...Holliugsworth, chairman of the Massachusetts Defenders Committee, said that he had won a number of retrial motions on the grounds that the defendant's rights had been violated by prejudicial coverage by the press. He did believe, however that most "harmful publicity" occurred only in "sensational" trials "like the Oawald case...
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