Larsen v. May

DONALDSON, Justice.

John Dee Larsen (petitioner-appellant) filed an amended Application for Post-Conviction Relief in district court. The petition as amended was based on the following grounds:(1) That petitioner was denied his right to due process of law by reason of prejudicial publicity generated by the news media depriving him of a fair and impartial jury trial.(2) That admissions and declarations (made to officers while traveling in an automobile from Las Vegas to Pocatello) were admitted at trial in violation of petitioner’s rights under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States…