U.S. Government Discussion Identify one or two impediments that may prevent an average citizen from receiving a fair trial in the U.S. Then, determine at least one policy that could prevent unfair trials in the U.S. court system.

1) There are two impediments which prevent an average citizen from receiving a fair trial in the U.S. The first one is the process of pre-trial publicity in different forms of media. Pre-trial publicity often contradicts the rules of evidence in court (Standler, 2004, p.2). It must be noted that, pretrial publicity in newspapers and television commentary routinely includes information that is sensational or inflammatory, in order to sell more newspapers or attract more viewers, which increases advertising revenue of the media (Standler, 2004, p.2). Such...