FILE - In this Dec. 31, 2020, record photo, Andre Hill, fatally changeable by Columbus constabulary connected Dec. 22, is memorialized connected a garment worn by his daughter, Karissa Hill successful Columbus, Ohio. Former Columbus Police serviceman Adam Coy was charged with execution successful the shooting decease Andre Hill, a Black man. Assistant Attorney General Anthony Pierson filed a question Wednesday, July 14, 2021, opposing Coy's petition for the proceedings beryllium moved to different region successful bid to convene a just and impartial jury. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins, File)

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio constabulary serviceman who changeable and killed Andre Hill volition basal proceedings adjacent spring, a justice decided Monday.

Hill, 47, who was Black, was fatally changeable by Officer Adam Coy, who is white, connected Dec. 22 arsenic Hill emerged from a store holding up a cellphone. Coy has since been fired from the Columbus constabulary department.

Coy, 44, has pleaded not blameworthy to execution and reckless homicide. Franklin County Judge Stephen McIntosh acceptable Coy's proceedings for March 7.

In August, McIntosh denied a request by Coy's attorneys to determination the proceedings retired of interest that extended section and nationalist publicity — including quality coverage, posts connected societal media and billboards astir Columbus — would marque it impossible to assemble an impartial assemblage for Coy successful Franklin County.

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McIntosh sided with prosecutors, who argued determination was nary crushed to judge that radical elsewhere were little apt to person work astir the lawsuit than were Franklin County residents.

In May, the metropolis reached a $10 cardinal settlement, the largest successful Columbus history, with Hill's family.

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