@article{ref1,
title="Investigating jury bias in a child molestation case",
journal="Behavioral sciences and the law",
year="1984",
author="Deitz, Sheila R. and Sissman, Peter L.",
volume="2",
number="4",
pages="423-434",
abstract="Defendants in most criminal cases have a constitutional right to be tried by a jury, however they may waive that right and elect to be tried by a judge. In several states and the federal criminal system, waiver of a jury trial requires the consent of the prosecution. Based on a United States Supreme Court decision in Singer v. United States, a criminal defendant does not have a constitutional right to bench a trial, although the Court acknowledged that certain cases might exist in which &quot;passion, prejudice … public feeling&quot; or other factors might render an impartial trial by jury impossible or unlikely. The present article describes one attempt to prove the Singer exception because of strongly biased pretrial publicity in a Virginia child molestation case.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0735-3936",
doi="10.1002/bsl.2370020409",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bsl.2370020409"
}