A judge today denied a request from the defense attorneys representing Larry Millete — the Chula Vista man charged with murdering his wife, who has been missing for more than four years after vanishing from her home — to move his murder trial away from the Chula Vista courthouse.
Attorneys for Millete, who is scheduled to go to trial in January on allegations that he killed May “Maya” Millete, argued that the media coverage surrounding her disappearance and his criminal case has influenced public perception to such a degree that Millete would not receive a fair trial with jurors summoned from the South Bay region.
In a recent filing, Millete’s attorneys wrote, “It is obvious that there is an extreme danger that potential jurors in South Bay would, and have already, judged Mr. Millete based on what the media has extensively and rarely accurately detailed about his lifestyle and personality, rather than on his proven acts or anything based on the actual evidence in this case.”…