Judge Denies Bowers Request to Move Trial

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(Pittsburgh, Pa.) A federal judge has denied the request for a change of the venue for the trial of Robert Bowers who is accused of killing 11 people at the Tree of Life, in Squirrel Hill in 2018.
Bowers attorneys filed a nearly 3,900-page change of venue motion alleging that media coverage of the attack and other community rallies would make it impossible to pick an impartial jury for Bowers and that he wouldn’t get a fair trial.
A seven-page opinion from U.S. District Judge Robert Colville denied the request saying that it has been more than three years since the attack and media attention has lessened.