Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. “Death qualification” means that jurors in a capital case understand that they may have to consider the death penalty if the defendant is convicted.
2. In order to keep the prosecutor and the defense counsel from “trying a case in the media,” a judge can issue a gag order prohibiting the attorneys from talking to the press about the case.
3. The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure now permit photography of judicial proceedings.
4. The Supreme Court has held that a judge may have an unruly defendant removed from the courtroom or bound and gagged until the defendant agrees to proper decorum.
1. F
2. T
3. F
4. T
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