Answer:
no effect of such instructions on jurors' decision-making in passing a guilty verdict.
Step-by-step explanation:
Pretrial publicity has been known to influence judges decisions in the past. This has however been condemned with new techniques put in place for an thorough trial.
Studies testing the effectiveness of judge's instructions to the jury to disregard pretrial publicity has been found to have no effect of such instructions on jurors' decision-making in passing a guilty verdict.