When trying a high-profile case in federal court, in terms of pretrial publicity, is there a different standard in federal court from the Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Responsibility on pretrial publicity?
The basic rule involving pretrial publicity is set forth in Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct, Rule 3.6. That rule prohibits a lawyer from saying anything pretrial that will have a substantial likelihood of materially prejudicing an adjudicative proceeding.
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