Word: motioning
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...local media’s “excessive coverage and prejudicial material” of the stabbing has made it “difficult, if not impossible...to find and seat a fair and impartial jury” in Middlesex County, according to the motion for a change of venue filed by attorney Jeffrey A. Denner and his associates...
...article and news story, then, has emphasized/sensationalized the socioeconomic, class, racial and ethnic divisions which define this case—the wealthy, seemingly-entitled, privileged, white, Harvard-educated, armed, intoxicated graduate student juxtaposed with the unarmed, blue collar, urban dwelling, uneducated Hispanic young Cambridge father,” the motion said...
...motion requests that the trail be moved from Middlesex Superior Court to Berkshire County Superior Court in Pittsfield, Mass. A phone survey commissioned by the defense showed that media outlets in Berkshire County have not covered the case extensively and residents will have fewer preconceptions...
...don’t believe [the tension] would carry itself over,” he said. Middlesex County District Attorney’s spokesperson Emily J. LaGrassa said the prosecution will not comment on the motion to change venue...
...November, U.S. District Court Judge John C. Lifland, a 1957 HLS graduate, denied FAIR’s motion for an injunction suspending the statute...