Public Opinion And Criminal Justice

Judicial independence is an old topic, it represents the impartiality of the exerciseof state power and authority. But with the development of economy, to enhance thepublic’s awareness of law, criminal judicial power independently exercise from the newsmedia, the challenge of public opinion, etc. In reality, the criminal judicial independencerelations with supervision by public opinion has been complex and subtle, for thejudiciary and the press, they play with each other "friends" and "enemies" dual role, wecan’t deny the supervision of public opinion to the judicial public produced the positiverole, but in some criminal cases, the news media’s improper intervention not only trialof cases of adverse effect and even sometimes about trial results, serious damage to theimpartial and independent of criminal justice. Based on the follow-up reports for theissues of yao’s case, through analyzing the concept of public opinion, further clarify thenature of public opinion and the effect which produces to the criminal justice; Throughthe analysis on the conflict between public opinion and criminal justice sex, grasps theconflict factors and specific performance, and then for the regulation of the news mediaand the negative effects of network public opinion is the independence of the criminaljurisdiction to provide relief way.