Jury selection is facing new challenges in an era of widespread social media coverage and heightened public attention surrounding high-profile criminal cases.
The murder trial of a former Stoughton, Massachusetts police officer accused of killing a pregnant woman and staging her death as a suicide is now underway after an extensive jury selection process. McCarter & English partner and former federal prosecutor Glenn MacKinlay spoke with WBUR and noted that, “The proliferation of information on social media makes it harder to get an impartial jury.”