CrimLaw

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Nobody wants to be tried where they are charged.

Malvo's lawyers are trying to move his trial because it will be impossible to get an impartial jury in Fairfax. They are claiming that the jury pool has been poisoned by media coverage. Of course, they are correct. Of course, the case won't be transferred. As a matter of pragmatism, where could you find a place in the United States (much less the Commonwealth) that hasn't been tainted by the news coverage? Maybe they could try Lee County; you can't get much more remote from any other place in Virginia. Can you imagine a prosecutor from Fairfax trying a case out in the middle of the mountains?

Sa'ad El-Amin wants to move his fedgov charges out of Richmond. SW Virginia Law Blog wonders why he would want to do this as he must have some friends in town in order to get elected to the city council. The problem is that none of the people who vote him into office are going to make it onto a fedgov jury. And the rest of us have heard about the disbarment and the lawsuits. Still, once they get rid of him it will make Richmond politics much more boring.

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