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A judge on Thursday denied a change of venue request made by the father of a Michigan school shooter in his involuntary manslaughter case. James Crumbley wanted jurors from a different county to ...
A change of venue is the legal term for moving a trial to a new location. In high-profile matters, a change of venue may occur to move a jury trial away from a location where a fair and impartial jury may not be possible due to widespread publicity about a crime and its defendants to another community in order to obtain jurors who can be more objective in their duties.
The motion was denied, apparently because the pertinent Indiana statute allows only a single change of venue." Irvin was retried and convicted on June 13, 1962, this time being sentenced to life in prison. His hobby in prison was hand-made leather work. He died at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City on November 9, 1983, of lung cancer.
Abuelazam hired a new attorney, Christopher M. Smith, who filed an appeal based on the original trial judge's rejection of a motion for a change of venue due to the extensive media coverage of the case which, they claimed, wrongly called him a serial killer, and refuted the judge's decision to allow evidence of the other attacks or testimony of ...
The Michigan Supreme Court is already handling a similar case after a wedding venue refused a same-sex couple and another business refused to serve a woman who is transgender.
Horner and his attorneys filed a motion in Wise County to change his capital murder trial venue to another location, citing the high level of publicity surrounding the case.
Crawford County is located in the Northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. It contains land within three of Michigan's largest watersheds, belonging to the Au Sable, Manistee, and Muskegon rivers and 75% of the county is publicly owned by the Department of Military Affairs, the United States Forest Service or the State of Michigan. [4]
Before trial, Ftouhi's lawyer filed a motion to change the trial location from Flint to Detroit due to their concern that pre-trial publicity would bias the potential jurors; the motion was denied. [16] Jury selection was completed on November 6, 2018 and opening statements began the next day. [17] [18]