Judge rejects Manafort’s bid to move trial further from DC
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a motion from former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to move his Virginia trial further from the Washington, D.C., media market.
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis denied a motion filed by Manafort’s attorneys to move the Virginia trial, scheduled for later this month, from Alexandria, Va., to Roanoke, Va., because his attorneys claimed that relentless media coverage of his role in the Trump campaign and the Russia investigation would taint a potential juror pool.
“The mere fact that a case has drawn substantial media attention does not, by itself, warrant a change in venue,” Ellis wrote in his ruling.
