All 9 Uses of
venue
in
Just Mercy
- In high-profile cases, it's fairly standard for defense lawyers to file a motion to change venue—to move the case from the county where the crime took place to a different county where there is less pretrial publicity and sentiment to convict.†
p. 61.5
- In Alabama, asking to change venue was an essentially futile act.†
p. 61.7 *
- Alabama courts had almost never reversed a conviction because the trial judge had refused to change venue.†
p. 61.7
- Chestnut and Boynton presented their change-of-venue motion.†
p. 61.9
- "The defendant's motion to change venue is granted," the judge ruled.†
p. 62.1
- The change of venue was disastrous for Walter.†
p. 62.6
- Given what he'd heard from other death row prisoners about all-white juries, Walter worried about the venue change as well.†
p. 62.8
- I argued that there was prosecutorial misconduct, racially discriminatory jury selection, and an improper change of venue.†
p. 127.5
- It was all exciting, but she was experiencing something unusual as she made her way to the venue.†
p. 227.8
Definition:
event location -- especially a performance, meeting, or gathering
or:
law: the jurisdiction where a trial will be held
or:
law: the jurisdiction where a trial will be held