Riley June Williams had asked to move the trial out of Washington D.C., arguing that the jury pool would be 'tainted' due to the pretrial publicity and community prejudice.
Walking with attorney Bryan McQuillan, Riley June Williams, 22, of Harrisburg, is released from Dauphin County Prison. Williams faces multiple charges in connection with the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, including the theft of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's laptop. January 21, 2021. Dan Gleiter | [email protected] judge has ruled against a Mechanicsburg woman again, the second time in recent months, related to her trial on charges of stealing Nancy Pelosi’s laptop during the Jan.
Ulrich also said that it would be more likely to find an unbiased jury in Harrisburg because “the media exposure has been more limited,” and the community was not directly “prejudiced” by the impacts of the attacks like street closures, a curfew and the National Guard presence. These things would have tainted the opinions of possible jurors, she said.
There was a reference to a survey of “jury-eligible citizens” commissioned by the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Columbia, which Ulrich said showed that they were not likely to “reveal or cure” the prejudicial views of Jan. 6 defendants as a group. In addition to that, Jackson commented on Williams’ belief that people from D.C. could not be unbiased.
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