Judge Ralph Beistline has granted, in part, Joshua Alan Wade’s change of venue motion. Beistline moved the fraud trial to Fairbanks, and kept the felon-in-possession trial in Anchorage.
The Anchorage Daily News article about the decision is here.
U. S. v. Wade, 3:07-cr-111-RB, 3:07-cr-122-RRB (D.Alaska Order of Jan. 3, 2008)
In U. S. v. Kott & Wehyrauch, (D. Alaska Aug. 1, 2007), Judge Sedwick rejected a criminal defendant’s request to move his trial from Anchorage to Juneau. Last week, in another criminal matter, Judge Sedwick denied a request to move a trial from Anchorage to Nome.
U. S. District Court Judge John Sedwick has rejected former Rep. Bruce Weyhrauch’s request to transfer the trial location from Anchorage to Juneau, He held that Anchorage is the superior location, at least for this matter, for a number of reasons, including
* better technical support for the Digital Electronic Presentation System;
* better air travel connections […]
