Mehserle seeks change of venue in BART shooting

A jury expert hired by former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle testified Tuesday that he thinks Mehserle’s trial should be moved out

of Alameda County because an unusually high number of people have already made up their minds about the case.

Craig New, a consultant from Portland, Ore., said the case against Mehserle, 27, who’s charged with murder for the shooting death of unarmed passenger Oscar Grant III, 22, at the Fruitvale station in Oakland early New Year’s Day, is “a real lightning rod for the community.”