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The former priest accused of killing a McAllen beauty queen will head to trial in Hidalgo County.
Attorneys for Priest John Feit — who’s charged with the murder of McAllen beauty queen Irene Garza in April 1960 — wanted the murder trial moved, arguing wall-to-wall media coverage would make finding an impartial jury difficult.
Prosecutors, though, fought for the trial to take place where the murder occurred: in Hidalgo County.
The District Attorney’s Office submitted a 45-page response to the motion for a change of venue that began:
Thou shall not kill (1)
Whoever shall voluntarily kill any person within this State shall be guilty of murder. (2)
God wrote the first law and the citizens of Hidalgo County, by and through a representative government, wrote the second. And both have a fundamental interest in justice.
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