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Kenneth A. Cohen '67, one of Sabath's lawyers, said yesterday that the defense will move for a change of venue to a county other than Suffolk, but that citing the jury's decision in the Edelin ease might not be part of the argument...
...Edelin has charged since his conviction that the jurors were from an area where anti-abortion sentiment ultimately prejudiced their decision...
...fall, Edelin's defense and the doctors' attornies commissioned a poll of the views on abortion of the Suffolk County jury pool but Cohen declined yesterday to commment on whether that poll would be cited in a motion for change of venue...
Cohen said that the delay in the prosecution of the experimenters' case is due partially to attornies' decision "to wait and watch the Edelin decision," and that a motion to dismiss based on a defendant's right to a "speedy trial" would thus probably be out of order...
Byrne refused to comment yesterday on whether the delay was due to an effort by the prosecution to finish with the Edelin case before proceeding with the other medical indictments...