State v. Dute, Unpublished Decision (5-30-2003)

{¶ 41} The dissent confuses the type of personalized prejudice that results when jury members for a specific case are exposed to information about that case, which the trial court had already deemed tooprejudicial to be offered as evidence, with mere general pretrial publicity.

{¶ 42} In State v. Davis1 and Mu'Min v. Virginia,2 both cases cited by the dissent, a murder defendant argued that members of the jury pool had been exposed to media reports about the murder months before the trial. In both cases, the court conducted a careful and searching voir dire and questioned potential jurors,…