Change of venue argued for in former pastor's trial

Come August 18 Pastor Louis Lamonica will find out he has no friends. His only hope is that the jury will see video taped interviews from his young victims and not send him to jail for the rest of his life. He does not need to worry about fair. He's going to jail. He needs to worry about for how long.

The attorney for former Hosanna Church Pastor Louis Lamonica argued in court Monday that his client can’t receive a fair trial in Tangipahoa Parish.

Lamonica is charged with four counts of aggravated rape of a juvenile.

Attorney Michael Thiel made several references to a story on Eyewitness News, which aired in February and featured an extensive interview with Nicole Bernard, the former wife of a man already convicted of three counts of rape of a juvenile in connection with Hosanna Church. Trey Bernard is currently serving three life sentences in Angola.

Source: Change of venue argued for in former pastor's trial

I need to do some research on this one. I do not know the case well enough to make my normal snarky comments.

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