COVID, media concerns raised for Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia trial
BOSTON — COVID-19 health safety concerns and possible intense media coverage in the upcoming 24-count extortion and fraud trial of former Mayor Jasiel Correia II were the top topics for federal court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock in a half-hour pre-trial conference on Friday. Jury selection is scheduled to start on April 20. Woodlock indicated in a remote hearing that he has set aside four days for jury selection, in part due to restraints of capacity to accommodate the assembly of jurors at the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston because of the pandemic....