{"id":28665,"date":"2011-01-16T20:53:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T04:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=28665"},"modified":"2011-01-16T21:25:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T05:25:45","slug":"yisroel-pensack-feds-planning-to-move-loughner-trial-to-san-diego-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=28665","title":{"rendered":"Yisroel Pensack: Feds Planning to Move Loughner Trial to San Diego, Report Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Washington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2011\/01\/16\/AR2011011604721.html?hpid=topnews\">report<\/a> by Jerry Markon,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Federal authorities are planning to move the trial of the alleged gunman in  the Jan. 8 mass shooting in Tucson to San Diego because of extensive pretrial  publicity in Arizona, federal law enforcement sources said Sunday night.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Jared Lee Loughner, 22, is charged in federal court in Arizona, but court  officials plan to move the case out of the state within several weeks, the  sources said. They cited publicity and the sensitivity of the case in Arizona,  where one of those fatally shot was John M. Roll, the state&#8217;s chief federal  judge.<\/p>\n<p>The new chief judge, Roslyn O. Silver, will make the final decision about any  venue change, but one law enforcement official said &#8220;it&#8217;s going to happen. It&#8217;s  just a matter of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Loughner is charged in the massacre that killed  Roll and five others and wounded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whorunsgov.com\/Profiles\/Gabrielle_Giffords\">Rep.  Gabrielle Giffords<\/a> (D-Ariz). Legal experts have said his lawyers are likely  to seek a change of venue&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Federal officials said San Diego would get the case in part because it&#8217;s one  of the closest judicial districts to Arizona. A San Diego-based federal judge,  Larry A. Burns, was appointed last week to hear the case because Arizona judges  recused themselves. Judy Clarke, Loughner&#8217;s attorney, is also based there&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Washington Post report by Jerry Markon, Federal authorities are planning to move the trial of the alleged gunman in the Jan. 8 mass shooting in Tucson to San Diego because of extensive pretrial publicity in Arizona, federal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=28665\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[235,18818],"tags":[25139,25116,25141,25135,25138,25137,25142,25143,24350,25115,25136,25106,1411],"class_list":["post-28665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-san-diego","category-yisroel-pensack","tag-a-matter-of-time","tag-arizona","tag-change-of-venue","tag-jared-lee-loughner","tag-jerry-markon","tag-john-m-roll","tag-judy-clarke","tag-larry-a-burns","tag-massacre","tag-rep-gabrielle-giffords","tag-roslyn-o-silver","tag-tucson","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28680,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28665\/revisions\/28680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}