Experts tell Rolling Stone intricacies of Utah Law and Franke’s status as a public figure will make a tough case even more difficult to try.
Ruby Franke Moved to Medical Block, Jodi Hildebrandt Experiences 'Life-Threatening' Health Issue in Jail
“Part of the reason too is that, especially with criminal cases, you don’t want to make a misstep and then have that come down later down the pipe and you have to get a new trial,“ Satterlee adds. “That can cause a lot of problems. You want to make sure you do things right the first time, so things stick.”
“Judges are incredibly sensitive to this and have a lot of tools at their disposal to try to combat potential bias in a jury pool, including carefully questioning potential jurors and even, in more extreme cases, changing the timing or location of the trial,” Jones says. “We can expect the courts will be highly attuned to this problem in a case like this.”
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