Lawyers for Schaeffer Cox and another member of the Fairbanks-based Alaska Peacemakers Militia have asked the court to move their trial from Anchorage because it’s “a suburb of Seattle” and is “an environment alien to the accused.”In a brief filed Friday, Tim Dooley, the attorney for Coleman Barney, argued that the venue should be moved because the defendants are from Fairbanks and “Alaskans generally agree that Anchorage is a distinctly different culture from that of Fairbanks.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=106989