[USNBandit]

Where do the interests of justice become outweighed by the need to avoid a sense of a coverup? I am not sure that a gag order, in general, ever helps anything.

What we see in so many cases these days is a trial in the media prior to the real trial. Most of the time this is waged by defense attorneys, but there has been an alarming trend in prosecutorial public statements. The idiot state's attorney in Baltimore is a perfect and well known example. Other examples are public press releases by U.S. Attorney''s offices, detailing crime sprees and then charging the defendant with a much less serious crime.

[Cboldt]

Angela Corey tried to get a gag order in the Zimmerman case too, three times!