Cop who killed Mike Ramos wants his trial moved to a deep-red county.
Pictured: San Saba County Courthouse. San Saba County is one of two counties deemed desirable for a change of venue requested by Christopher Taylor's attorneys.
The change of venue motion Taylor’s defense attorneys filed July 25 doesn’t explicitly address Travis County’s politics, but argues that unfavorable body-cam footage and news stories about Ramos’ death spread so widely that any county within “the Austin media market” will be too prejudiced against Taylor. Defense attorneys Doug O’Connell and Ken Ervin don’t define that market’s boundaries, but ask that Judge Dayna Blazey move the trial to Comal or San Saba County, both 91% white, and that Gov.
That’s true. But they are also an interesting mix of people close to Judge Blazey, attorneys with ties to some of the state’s most high-power and problematic right-wingers, and attorneys whose careers have been built on securing “not guilty” verdicts for killers of teenagers and killers with eyewitnesses.
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