Yesterday the lawyers of three detectives who are charged of killing an unarmed man in Queens in 2006 asked for the trial to be moved from New York City saying that most of the potential jurors find the detectives guilty thus not having a chance to a fair trial.

The three detectives, Michael Oliver, Gescard F. Isnora and Marc Cooper are charged for shooting and killing a man, Sean Bell, when the victim exited a Jamaica strip club just on the day he was to be married.

According to the New York Times, the lawyers said in the motion they’ve filled Monday, that they’ve conducted a poll interviewing 600 Queen residents. It turned out that 60.5 percent of those questioned believed the detectives’ shootings were unjustified. Also almost 47 percent believe that the detectives made a mistake.

The motion said: “From the very outset of this case, which has become known as ‘the Sean Bell Case,’ or ‘the 50-Shot Case,’ there has been an enormous amount of highly prejudicial local media publicity coming from both the print and broadcast media.”

The motion doesn’t say where the case should be moved, but to be in “another urban county.”

Sean Bell, along with two friends, Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield, was leaving Club Kalua on the morning of November 25, 2006 just when the police was conducting an undercover investigation in the club. Officers shot 50 bullets at Bell believing that he was armed, and killed him. His two friends were injured.

Police said that Bell wanted to hit the detectives with the car.

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown believes that there is possible to find an impartial jury so he declared that he will fight to keep the trial in Queens, the New York Daily News informs.

Detectives Endowment Association President Michael Palladino says otherwise: “I think it's pretty well-established that there's been irreparable harm done to the jury pool.”

Another similar case occurred in 1999 when Amadou Diallo, an immigrant, was killed by four officers in his apartment in Bronx. After the trial was moved to Albany, the officers were acquitted.

Oliver and Isnora can be charged for first- and second-degree manslaughter resulting in a sentence of 25 years, and Cooper is facing two charges of reckless endangerment and may receive a year in jail.