A household visits a memorial at Veteran's Park for the victims of Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021's lethal Christmas parade crash in Waukesha, Wis. on Nov. 23, 2021. (AP Photograph/Jeffrey Phelps File)
WAUKESHA, WIS. --
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 yr.
Darrell Brooks Jr. has pleaded not responsible to greater than 70 prices, 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 means of Oct. 28. Prosecutors instructed her they'd probably want 5 to seven days to current their case. Brooks' attorneys mentioned they did not understand how a lot time they would wish.
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 has employed him up to now to carry out authorized work for them, he donated $500 to her judicial marketing campaign and he or she provided 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 may be chosen within the county. The choose made the transfer after Brooks' legal professional filed a movement final month searching for 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 neighborhood has adopted a “Waukesha Robust” slogan, individuals constructed a brief memorial to the useless and media shops have used photographs of Brooks in court docket in chains. In addition they identified that first girl Jill Biden visited Waukesha and her remarks calling the parade crash a “tragedy” had been extensively reported. On social media, individuals have referred to as for Brooks to be put to demise, they added.
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