Attorneys for one of the men accused of killing UNC student body president Eve Carson want their client's trial moved out of North Carolina.
Demario Atwater's lawyers argue their client can't get a fair trial in the state because of the media coverage the case has received so far. They requested that several media agencies, including FOX8, turn over all stories about the Carson murder to prove their point, and they also asked a federal judge to move the trial to Virginia.
A federal judge heard the argument Wednesday in Winston-Salem and denied the defense's request that local media turn over their content, saying it would burden financially strapped newsrooms. But the judge did not make a decision on whether to move the trial out of North Carolina.
A second man charged in Carson's murder, Lawrence Lovette Jr., will be tried separately. He was 17 at the time of the murder and is therefore not eligible for the death penalty if convicted.
Atwater is eligible.
Carson was the UNC Chapel Hill student body president at the time of her death. She was kidnapped and shot in a neighborhood near campus.
Demario Atwater's lawyers argue their client can't get a fair trial in the state because of the media coverage the case has received so far. They requested that several media agencies, including FOX8, turn over all stories about the Carson murder to prove their point, and they also asked a federal judge to move the trial to Virginia.
A federal judge heard the argument Wednesday in Winston-Salem and denied the defense's request that local media turn over their content, saying it would burden financially strapped newsrooms. But the judge did not make a decision on whether to move the trial out of North Carolina.
A second man charged in Carson's murder, Lawrence Lovette Jr., will be tried separately. He was 17 at the time of the murder and is therefore not eligible for the death penalty if convicted.
Atwater is eligible.
Carson was the UNC Chapel Hill student body president at the time of her death. She was kidnapped and shot in a neighborhood near campus.
