AMITE (LA)
TheNewOrleansChannel.com
POSTED: 11:33 am CDT August 3, 2005
UPDATED: 12:33 pm CDT August 3, 2005
AMITE, La. -- Attorneys for two men charged with raping children are asking for access to the evidence against their clients and a change of venue because of pretrial publicity in the case against the Hosanna Church members.
The judge in the case has not ruled on those requests, but did set bond at $350,000 for Austin Bernard. The other accused man appearing in District Judge Doug Hughes' courtroom, Allen Pierson, was released last week after posting $300,000 bail.
Attorneys for both men indicated that their request to change the location of the trial because of the intensive media coverage of the investigation is premature, but they asked the judge to take the request under consideration.
Posted by kshaw at August 3, 2005 07:14 PM