U.S. Court Denies Fugitive’s Motion to Quash Warrant and Change of Venue

On April 16, 1998, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts denied a motion to quash a warrant for arrest of the relator, Shoshannah Eliseba Schweidenback, and denied a motion to transfer venue from Massachusetts to Rhode Island. The bright note for Schweidenback was that the court decided to apply the law of the Rhode Island, which was more favorable to her... [more]