A judge has refused a change of venue request for a teenager accused in the death of a counselor at Lincoln Hills-Copper Lake School in Lincoln County.
The defense for 17-year-old Javarious Hurd had requested a jury from elsewhere hear the Lincoln County Case.
Change of venue requests are typically made due to the risk that pretrial publicity may have swayed the opinions of potential jurors.
A Lincoln County Judge this week denied the request during a motions hearing in the case.
49-year-old Cory Proulx was a counselor at the Lincoln Hills-Copper Lakes juvenile prison when he was allegedly punched multiple times by then 16-year-old inmate Javarius Hurd.
Proulx fell and hit his head and died a day later.
Hurd, who is now 17 years old, faces one count of first-degree reckless homicide and two counts of battery by a prisoner.
