Pretrial publicity: Media coverage and guilt attributionFootnote¹

The author would like to thank James W. Coleman, Harold R. Kerbo, Edward Nelson, and Pat Tupac‐Yupanqui for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper.

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