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the six young men on trial for the murder of San Francisco Police officer Joseph Braude Nick a year ago, and their attorneys were hoping the judge Carisch, would remain on and hear the case. They said that the matter had been before the court for 13 weeks,

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and they felt it imperative that Carisch remain. When the judges announcement came this afternoon, though, it was double barreled. He said that in fact, he would like to remain on, but that his misgivings about the case had already been told of presiding judge yesterday. So this

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afternoon that same presiding judge made his decision that the case would no longer be heard by Carisch that instead it would be heard by Lawrence Mana. Just after that decision was made, the chief counsel for Luciette, Charles Gary, gave his reaction to the decision. The trial

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now has already been poisoned with a jaundiced atmosphere in a jaundice air, and I feel that the defendants are not gonna be able to get a fair trial. I feel that the defendants have been denied fundamental due process of law. All of the 13 months of

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motions the judge carries has heard has all gone under the water. All of these things will have to be renewed. A judge is coming into the case who knows absolutely nothing about it. A judge is coming into the cases already participated in a hearing in the

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juvenile court regarding one of the defendants. One of my defendants, Mr Rios, I I have never. In all the years in the 31 years that I've been at this bar, I have never seen this kind of a display on the part of the judiciary. And when

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the court tells me of my objections, will be noted for the record, when we have made extensive arguments in the wall and in the fax, and to kiss us off in this kind of a way, I say this is one of the most rotten cop outs

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that I have ever seen in all the years I practiced law. On Monday, the matter moves on to Judge Mantas Court, where attorney Gary says he is prepared to ask that the case be dismissed on the grounds that his clients have already been sworn in in

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one court and that to do it again in another would constitute double jeopardy failing that Gary says he is thinking about the possibility of taking the matter all the way to the Supreme Court. Dave Montes, Eyewitness News San Francisco