If a criminal commits a crime in a different county than the one where the crime was committed, would that change the outcome of the criminal trial if the crime occurred in the other county?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Price v. Superior Court, 91 Cal.Rptr.2d 864 (Cal. App. 2000):

As the court remarked in People v. Campbell, supra, "we do not think criminals seriously consider the county they are in before committing crimes and how such would affect their trials if they should get caught." (230 Cal.App.3d at p. 1447.) Given the multiple-venue statutes which have already been upheld, some of which we have discussed above, criminals who did try to plan their crimes to obtain a "favorable" venue and jury would often be unpleasantly disappointed.

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