B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge, dissenting. I respectfully dissent. The guilt phase of Hayes’s trial should have been transferred out of Santa Cruz County because the considerable adverse pretrial publicity created a presumption of prejudice among the jury pool. In Sheppard v. Maxwell, the Supreme Court held that due process requires a change of venue or a continuance when the defendant ca…
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