Iberia Parish Sheriff Louis Ackal and his co-defendants, Gerald Savoy and Mark Frederick, are asking the court to move the trial from Shreveport to Lafayette.
Federal prosecutors are weighing additional charges against Sheriff Louis Ackal and one of his top lieutenants in a case linked to alleged beatings of jail inmates.
The federal government is investigating claims that a former deputy of the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office used excessive force when dealing with an inmate in the parish's correctional center in 2012.