HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — A woman charged with aiding the killer of two Hattiesburg police officers will be tried somewhere else.
The Hattiesburg American reports that Forrest County Circuit Judge Bob Helfrich granted a motion for a change of venue for Joanie Calloway.
Helfrich says he'll seek a location outside the Hattiesburg media market and then set a new trial date.
Calloway's lawyer says pretrial publicity makes a fair trial in Hattiesburg impossible.
She's charged with attempted accessory after the fact of capital murder and first-degree hindering prosecution following the 2015 murders of Hattiesburg police officers Benjamin J. Deen and Liquori Tate.
The 23-year-old is accused of helping accused murderer Marvin Banks flee. She's also accused of misleading police on Banks' identity. Banks died of heart disease in 2015 while jailed.
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