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Excerpt:

>Longtime Salt Lake City defense attorney Greg Skordas, who has also worked as a prosecutor and is currently a host on KSL NewsRadio, says a trial likely won't happen for at least a year and maybe not until 2028. Skordas has no involvement in the Robinson case and spoke to KSL as a third-party observer.

Also:

>As for any effort by Robinson's defense team to change the venue and have the case moved out of Utah County, Skordas points to the Kouri Richins murder trial. The Kamas mother was twice denied attempts to have her case moved to Salt Lake County and Richins was eventually convicted of killing her husband. Skordas says a fair jury was seated in that case, and noted that Summit County has a much smaller population than Utah County.

I was surprised to read this, especially since I followed the Kohberger case and they were given a change of venue from Moscow, Idaho to Boise, which is much larger, population-wise. This crime was so grisly, and centered on one off-campus household of students.

Both are relatively small college towns significantly impacted by what happened. Both cases attracted national and international attention - which also that any trials will have significant out-of-town traffic (in terms of visitors) coming in because of the trial.

In this case, the crime isn't what I would call grisly, but so many people were present when it happened, or knew people who were present. I would think, like the Kohberger case, the defense could easily get a change of venue, and should.

In the Kohberger case, the university played a major role in the COV. They wanted the case out of Moscow so people could move on with the healing process, and because it had so seriously impacted the university itself. One of the administration officials testified during a hearing as to the tremendous bias in the community regarding the case. Everyone knew about it and had strong feelings about it.

From what I heard in this one interview with a Washington County local, he said people can't even visit the campus because they're still so affected by what happened that day. So, in addition to the tremendous bias this creates in a jury pool, as this person shared, you would think the university would want this case to change venue, as well. And so that they can also try to help people move on.

But .. maybe Utah law differs from Idaho on change of venue?

Or maybe the defense feels that Tyler and his family are known better in this area, and that this would help him, instead? That he's "one of their own?" For example, read in this article:

>The arrest hit particularly close to home for Brooksby, who noted that the suspect was a local resident who grew up in the area.

>“This kind of stuff doesn’t happen in Utah,” Brooksby said. “Unfortunately, it did. But then to have the suspect be a Utah resident who literally went to the same high school I went to, it’s a double shock factor, that one. One. in Utah and then the suspect happened to be a homegrown Washington County boy.”

>And one year later, Brooksby says that night still stands out for how differently it could have ended. Instead of a SWAT team or a shootout, Robinson walked through the doors with his parents and turned himself in.

What happened the night Tyler Robinson surrendered

And of course, Tyler Robinson has pleaded NG and has a right to a presumption of innocence.

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-your friend up north