U.S. v. CHURCH

No. 1:00CR00104.

217 F.Supp.2d 696 (2002)

UNITED STATES of America v. Walter Lefight CHURCH, Defendant.

United States District Court, W.D. Virginia, Abingdon Division.

August 5, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Bondurant, Jr., Anthony P. Giorno, Office of the United States Attorney, Roanoke, VA, for United States of America.

James C. Turk, Jr., Stone, Harrison & Turk, P.C., Radford, VA, Beverly M. Davis, Davis, Davis & Davis, Radford, VA, for defendant.


OPINION AND ORDER

JONES, District Judge.

The defendant has filed a motion requesting transfer and change of venue based on pretrial publicity in this case, as well as the publicity surrounding the recent trial of his co-defendant. I find that there is no presumed prejudice due to such publicity; therefore, at this time I will deny the defendant's motion.

I

The defendant, Walter Lefight Church, and his co-defendant, Samuel Stephen Ealy,...

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