A choose set an October trial date Friday for a person accused of killing six individuals and injuring dozens of others by driving his SUV right into a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee final 12 months.
Darrell Brooks Jr. has pleaded not responsible to greater than 70 expenses, together with six murder counts, in reference to the Nov. 21 incident in downtown Waukesha.
Waukesha County Circuit Choose Jennifer Darow scheduled Brooks’ trial to start Oct. 3 and run by Oct. 28. Prosecutors informed her they'd possible want 5 to seven days to current their case. Brooks’ attorneys mentioned they didn’t know the way a lot time they would want.
Darow acknowledged through the listening to that she is aware of the daddy of one of many individuals who had been killed. She mentioned her household had employed him previously to carry out authorized work for them, that he had donated $500 to her judicial marketing campaign and that she had supplied him her condolences after the parade by way of textual content messages. She mentioned she hasn’t interacted with him since these texts and pledged to officiate the case impartially.
Darow additionally ordered either side to start drafting a survey to mail to potential jurors in Waukesha County to gauge whether or not an neutral jury could be chosen within the county. The choose made the transfer after Brooks’ lawyer filed a movement final month in search of to maneuver the trial out of Waukesha County or pull jurors from one other county as a result of publicity about Brooks has been so pervasive and unfavourable.
Brooks’ attorneys famous within the movement that the group has adopted a “Waukesha Sturdy” slogan, that individuals have constructed a brief memorial to the lifeless and that media shops have used photographs of Brooks in courtroom in chains. Additionally they identified that First Girl Jill Biden visited Waukesha and her remarks calling the parade crash a “tragedy” had been broadly reported. On social media, individuals have known as for Brooks to be put to loss of life, they added.
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