Ramsey Circus: Remember Richard Jewell

By Steve Safran 

Add Poynter’s Bob Steele to the “look before leaping” crowd in the JonBenet Ramsey arrest story. Bob rightly points us to the sad case of Richard Jewell, the man who was the definition of “convicted in the media” for the 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta. (Jewell’s lawyer, L. Lin Wood, is the same lawyer who represents the Ramseys.)

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