California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Keever, F066553 (Cal. App. 2014):
Defendant's due process claims are meritless on the record before this court and are based on nothing but speculation. His failure to move for a change of venue, which presumably would have been accompanied by the appropriate supporting exhibits, is fatal to his due process claims and forfeits appellate review of the issue. (See, e.g., People v. Simon (2001) 25 Cal.4th 1082, 1103-1104, 1107.) There is nothing in the appellate record to indicate the nature or circumstances of any news reports about the fake bomb, the effect of the discovery of the bomb on the general public and/or the courthouse staff, or even if the trial judge, the prosecutor, and any members of the public who were ultimately selected to sit on his jury were in the courthouse at the time the fake bomb was discovered, or suffered any type of impact or reaction from the event.
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