Wrongfully accused of murder

"The media, from the start, was against us. The whole first trial was in the paper every day and only things which were adverse to us. If there was anything good that came out, no, they wouldn't publish it."

Australian Story Interview

Media pressure and bias can also play a serious part in wrongful convictions. It is however more difficult to pinpoint the cases where by media pressure and bias lead to the jury coming to the wrong verdict seeming it is against the law for anyone to question a jury about what lead them to their decision.

Media bias is media coverage which is deemed to prejudiced the defendants and / or pressured the police in their investigations.

Media Pressure, Stereotyping and Prejudice

Media pressure often leads to premature arrests of suspects before a thorough investigation and relevant forensic tests have been carried out.

Indeed extensive media coverage of a particularly serious crime can lead investigators to form a conjecture of the offence and the offender, to which they cling to despite the emergence of countervailing evidence.