SAN FRANCISCO — Judge Morris Jacobson hasn’t decided yet whether to change the venue for the murder trial of a former BART police officer. But as a hearing on that motion began Tuesday, he was put off by one defense tactic, saying it added “unnecessary drama.”
In a hearing Tuesday, defense attorney Michael Rains, of Pleasant Hill’s Rains Lucia Stern, attempted to show that inflammatory news coverage and a history of racial tension would make it impossible for his client to get a fair trial in Alameda County.
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