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138: 36: 257:'s selected venue is either improper or less appropriate than another venue. A change of venue request because venue is improper means that the removing defendant believes that the case may not be in that venue because it is improper under procedural rules. A change of venue request can also be made if the defendant believes there is a more appropriate venue – called 284:
calls the court to order part of the cry will take the form "in and for the County of San Francisco"; when there is a change of venue the cry will be, "in the County of Alameda for the County of San Francisco."
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for the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, in which the court granted a change of venue, and ordered the case to be moved from Santa Monica to downtown Los Angeles.
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The sensational 1844 trial of Polly Bodine, who was accused of murdering her husband's sister and niece and setting fire to their house, a case commented on by
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who can be more objective in their duties. This change may be to different towns, and across the other sides of states or, in some extremely high-profile
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on the concern that the defendant was so popular in that community that a jury there would be unavoidably and unfairly biased in his favor.
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amid concerns that Peterson would not be able to receive a fair trial due to the heavy amount of publicity the trial had generated.
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Notwithstanding its use in high-profile cases, a change of venue is more typically sought when a defendant believes that the
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in New York. The packed trial resulted in a hung jury and then an early case of change of venue, the retrial moved first to
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A change of venue may be reflected in the formal language used in a trial. For example, in California, when a
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caused their trials to be moved over 100 miles away to the southeastern Virginia cities of
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as the local population in Penyberth were highly sympathetic towards the defendants.
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to a new location. In high-profile matters, a change of venue may occur to move a
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in 2019 due to the latter having a greater amount of Spanish-speaking jurors.
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in making the decision as to whether there is a more appropriate venue.
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permitted the venue for some high-profile cases to be changed to the
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The 1992 state level trial of the four Los Angeles police officers (
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deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a
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The trial of Christian Bahena Rivera (the murder suspect of
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and was based concerns that he would not be able get a
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presided over by U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch.
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