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Jury Selection Wraps up with Seating of Alternates

After selecting the 12 primary jurors, the court moved on to seating the alternates.  From the remaining pool of potential jurors, the court seated three who will serve as alternates in the event that one of the original twelve are unable to serve at some point during the trial.  The alternate will listen to [...]

Day 2 Alternate juror selection

Jury selection is proceeding at a rapid clip.  The 12 primary jurors were selected today using  the process of peremptory challenge, which means that potential jurors were eliminated if either the prosecution or the defense had any questions as to their character. It was also run, according to Molloy, using the “Arizona strike method,” where the [...]