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When a Motion for Change of Venue is filed in a criminal case, it means either the prosecution or the defense is asking the judge to move the upcoming trial to a different place.
Reasons for changes of venue include pretrial publicity, bias, political atmosphere, and any other circumstance that the parties believe would prevent them from obtaining a fair trial in the county in which the case was originally filed.
YOU NEED TO CHANGE COURTS? To move your case to another court, you must make a ?Motion to Change Venue? in writing, and file one copy with the Court where your case is currently located and another copy with the Department of Homeland Security.
While jurisdiction says in what state and what court you file your lawsuit, ?venue? is the county where you file your action.
Grounds for Change. To achieve a change of venue, defendants typically have to show a reasonable likelihood that they can't receive a fair trial. That reasonable likelihood is usually due to pretrial publicity, but it could have to do with some other event making it almost impossible to find an impartial jury.