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This episode talks about the horrific practice of pretrial publicity, where in the United States, Canada and many other countries, media outlets publish the names, photographs and even addresses of accused individuals, stigmatizing their lives and branding them as guilty of the crimes of which they are accused long before they have a chance at a fair trial. In other countries like the Netherlands, Sweden Germany and much of Europe, this practice is seen as ethically amoral, as it violates inherent ethics that guard against the harm caused by publicizing the names of people who have not yet had an opportunity to defend against criminal charges in a court of law. To emphasize this practice, I provide a recent case here in Flathead County: the first degree murder conviction of Brad Hillious, whose determination of guilt was only possible with the propaganda tool used by corrupt authorities here in the state of Montana and media outlets around the county who only publicized the skewed agenda of the local prosecutor, condemning him in the court of public opinion over a year before he ever saw trial.
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