"Sean Bell Case"Defendants Want Case Move

Everyone, across the nation, knows what happen in the Sean Bell case. That's what makes the following argument pointless:

Lawyers for three police detectives charged in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man in Queens in 2006 filed a motion yesterday requesting that the trial, scheduled to begin next month, be moved out of New York City, saying publicity has “incurably poisoned” the pool of prospective jurors.

Detectives Michael Oliver, Gescard F. Isnora and Marc Cooper are charged in the shooting outside a Jamaica strip club at which the man, Sean Bell, was shot and killed in the early morning of the day that he was to be married.

In the filing, their lawyers said they had polled 600 Queens residents and found that 60.5 percent of the respondents believed the shooting to have been unjustified. The motion also cites remarks made after the shooting by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who said the circumstances surrounding the shooting were “inexplicable” and “unacceptable.”

Do you think a change of venue will change the facts?