Prejudicial Pretrial Publicity

Scott Greenfield over at Simple Justice has this excellent commentary today on the abusive and anachronistic practice of perp walks–that is, law enforcement agents parading arrested defendants in handcuffs before the media. In a country that supposedly honors the principle of the presumption of innocence, this exercise in prejudicial pre-trial publicity should be stopped, and the executive branches at the state and federal level should lead the charge. But don’t count on it.