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Lawyer: Move trial from courthouse with Confederate monument

A legal argument has been revived in Louisiana over whether a black defendant can get a fair trial in a courthouse where a Confederate monument is displayed.

Niles Haymer, a lawyer for defendant Ronnie Anderson, says the answer is no. He released copies Tuesday of his new motion to have Anderson's case moved out of state court in the city of Clinton, where a Confederate monument stands outside the East Feliciana Parish Courthouse.

A judge rejected a similar motion in August, saying Haymer filed too late.

Read entire article at The Herald-Whig