Survey of change‐of‐venue motions in appellate court transcripts of murder trials (2000–2020): Which factors make a difference?
Nadav Goldschmied,
Anna Ancona,
Amanda Yap
Abstract:A court may move the location of the trial to another jurisdiction if the jury pool is deemed biased by the judge, a legal maneuver based on a “Change of Venue” motion (CoVm). We surveyed the frequency and the factors associated with granting the motion at the state level when the defendant was charged with murder. We reviewed court transcripts of appealed murder convictions during the 2000–2020 years from Nexis. We complied a sample of 832 CoVm and conducted a nested regression analysis. We repeated the proce… Show more
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