I appreciate your post, but besides the fact that the latter part of the code states that "This subdivision applies only if the person arrested resides, or the person's principal place of employment is located, closer to the county seat than to the magistrate nearest or most accessible to the place where the arrest is made." Unless you do not consider Downey or even any number of courthouse east of Metro courthouse not part of LA county and not closer to Orange County than the Metro courthouse than I do not see how they could deny my request regardless of being "only" 15 miles. The 15 miles is a lesser issue than the blatant disregard for the VC, and due process, and this is the more pertinent reason for my posting. For argument sakes if I do get denied a change of venue at arraignment, there has to be some other recourse to make sure that the venue gets changed based on this trampling of the law.