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The Press at Its Worst:
When osteopath Sam Sheppard's wife was murdered in 1954, he was an immediate suspect. The Cleveland news media decided Sheppard was guilty even before he was charged, and ran biased headlines and stories. Sheppard was convicted. In 1966, the US Supreme Court overturned his conviction, in part because he had not been protected from unfair publicity. He was acquitted in a second trial. |