Change of Venue for NYPD Shooting Trial
From Times Wire Reports
The trial of four white New York Police Department officers accused of murdering a West African immigrant in a hail of 41 bullets was ordered moved from the Bronx to Albany, N.Y., by an appeals court. The court cited “a tidal wave of prejudicial publicity.” Jury selection in the officers’ trial is scheduled to begin in three weeks. Amadou Diallo was shot 19 times Feb. 4 by members of an elite street-crime unit.
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