TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — One justice says the Kansas Supreme Court is making it so difficult for criminal defendants to get their trials moved that nothing short of an angry mob outside a courthouse will force a change.

Justice Lee Johnson leveled the criticism Friday in a separate opinion in the capital murder cases of Jonathan and Reginald Carr. The court overturned their death sentences for a crime spree that left four people dead in a Wichita field in December 2000.

But the court rejected the men’s claims that they should be tried again outside Wichita on all of the dozens of charges against them because of negative pretrial publicity.

Johnson wrote that under the decision, a change of venue won’t happen without a mob “storming the courthouse” with torches and a hangman’s rope.