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Dec 25, 2008 3:12 pm US/Central

Former Football Player Denied Change Of Venue

HIBBING, Minn. (AP) ― A judge has denied a request from a former Hibbing Community College football player for a change of venue in his sexual assault trial.

Andrew J. Williams of Milwaukee is charged with two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct in the October 2006 attack on an 18-year-old Grand Rapids woman in a dormitory.

Three other men were also charged in the attack. Like the 22-year-old Williams, they are all black and from out-of-state. And like Williams, they have all pleaded not guilty.

Lawyers for Williams said the trial of a black man from out of state assaulting a white woman would be "unavoidably biased" in a community as racially uniform as Hibbing.

Sixth Judicial District Judge Mark Starr denied the request. The next hearing is scheduled for Jan. 16.

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