TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.
I. Introduction
The question presented in this appeal is whether pretrial publicity denied John Goss a fair trial. Goss's claim arises from pretrial press coverage of the September 1986 murder of his former girlfriend, Janice Amerin, and the subsequent manhunt that culminated in his arrest. Ms. Amerin lived in the small town of Plains, Kansas, which is located in Meade County in the southwest part of the state on the Oklahoma border...
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