The defendant, Joshua Komisarjevsky, is currently awaiting trial on a multicount information, including several _____ of capital _____ . The case has _____ intense public interest. On November 8, 2010, the jury in State v. Hayes _____ special verdicts _____ a sentence of death for the co-defendant.
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On February 4, 2011, Komisarjevsky ( _____ referred to as “the defendant”) filed the motion for change of _____ now _____ the court. The motion is based on what it terms “the unprecedented, _____publicity surrounding this case, as _____ by the recent trial of Mr. Komisarjevsky's co-defendant, Steven Hayes.”
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At the hearing, Steven Penrod, a professor of psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice _____ that a poll he conducted found the highest level of “case _____” he had ever seen. A smaller, but still substantial, percentage of _____ expressed an opinion that Komisarjevsky was guilty. 70.6% of his New Haven _____ reported that they could _____ a verdict based only on the evidence. A second defense witness submitted a flash drive containing 1,808 media reports concerning the cases _____ from the Internet, showing the cases have been _____ reported.
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“Any judge _____ a criminal session of the Superior Court may, _____ motion, order any criminal case _____ in the court to be transferred to the superior court for any other judicial district if extraordinary local _____ will prevent a fair trial.” The defendant _____ the burden of showing that he could not _____ receive a fair and impartial trial. The trial court exercises its _____ in deciding whether to grant such a change of venue.
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A defendant cannot rely, however, on the _____ fact of extensive pretrial news _____ to establish the existence of _____ prejudicial publicity and must demonstrate that the publicity was so inflammatory or _____ that it created a trial atmosphere _____ corrupted by press _____. The Supreme Courts of Connecticut and of the United States have provided _____ on this issue.
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Skilling _____ a four-factor test in determining _____ a “presumption of prejudice,” like that found in Rideau, exists in a given case: (1) “the size and characteristics of the community in which the crime occurred,” (2) _____ news stories about the defendant “contained [a] confession or other _____ prejudicial information of the type readers or viewers could not reasonably be expected to _____,” (3) the _____ of time between the crime and the trial, and (4) the _____ verdict of the jury.
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First, the New Haven Judicial District has a population substantially _____ than that of Rideau's parish. It consists of thirteen towns with a significant diversity of residents. “Given this large, diverse _____ of potential jurors, the suggestion that 12 impartial individuals could not be _____ is hard to _____.” Second, media reports on the cases in question have not focused on “_____ of guilt.” Some of Komisarjevksy's post-arrest statements to the police and certain diaries apparently authored by him in prison were _____ into evidence in the penalty phase of State v. Hayes, and these admissions generated news reports at the time. But these admissions do not appear to have been particularly _____ in the public mind.
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Third, by the time the jury in this case is _____, over four years will have _____ since the crime. This prong of the Skilling analysis is made more complicated by the fact that Komisarjevsky's co-defendant was tried in the fall of 2009, and the Hayes trial _____ generated publicity unfavorable to Komisarjevsky. But, as discussed in the analysis of Skilling, _____, this publicity has not created an _____ impression on the public with respect to Komisarjevsky's _____ admissions.
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It is significant that the jury in State v. Hayes, which had also been exposed to considerable pretrial publicity, _____ Hayes of one _____ of arson. This fact serves as a _____ to defense suggestions in this case that, in spite of their _____ and instructions, jurors' verdicts are simply a function of pretrial publicity. In fact, as Skilling points out, “it is a _____ of [our justice] system that jurors will _____ their preconceptions when they enter the courtroom and decide cases based on the evidence presented.”
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The court finds that the defendant has failed to establish a _____ of prejudice requiring a change of venue _____ to the beginning of the voir dire process. The circumstances of this case _____ require the court “to conduct a _____ voir dire in which _____ jurors' attitudes about the case [are] closely _____.” Connecticut law provides a particularly _____ voir dire process. The goal of the voir dire process is not to select twelve jurors “with empty heads. It is sufficient if the jurors can _____ their impressions or opinions and _____ a verdict based on the evidence presented in court.”
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