Everything about Change Of Venue totally explained
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/or its
defendant(s) to another community in order to obtain jurors who can be more objective in their duties. This change may be a few towns away, or across the state.
In
law, the word
venue designates the location where a
trial will be held. It derives from the
Latin word for "a place where people gather."
A change of venue may be reflected in the formal language used in a trial. For example, when a
bailiff or
marshal calls the court to order part of the
cry will take the form "in and for the County of San Francisco"; When there's a change of venue the cry will be, "in the County of San Francisco for the County of Alameda."
High-profile cases
Examples of high-profile cases with a change of venue include the trials in
Virginia of
Beltway sniper attacks defendants
Lee Boyd Malvo and
John Allen Muhammad. The crimes occurred in
Northern Virginia and caused widespread publicity. The judges selected communities with similar demographics but more than 100 miles distant in
Chesapeake and
Virginia Beach in the far southeastern edge of Virginia.
In the 20th century, controversial venue changes included the 1992 trial of the four Los Angeles police officers (
LAPD) in the Rodney King incident; this trial was moved outside
Los Angeles County to
Simi Valley in neighboring
Ventura County. In the trial of
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, the court granted a change of venue, and ordered the case transferred from
Oklahoma City to the
U.S. District Court in Denver, Colorado presided over by U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch. In 1999, similar venue changes occurred in the
Amadou Diallo murder case in which the
NYPD defendants' trial was moved to
Albany.
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