Wilmoth v. Commonwealth

Opinion

BARROW, J.

In this appeal of a conviction for voluntary manslaughter, the defendant argues that because of a news article about her pending trial, the trial judge should have continued the trial or excluded every prospective juror who acknowledged having read the article. However, since the defendant did not demon strate a widespread feeling of prejudice within the community which was reasonably certain to prevent a fair and impartial trial or that any of the jurors who were chosen to sit at her trial were biased, we conclude that the trial court did not err in denying the defendant’s…