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Jury Selection

By Steve Hall

The next several posts will form on opinion roundup of columns and OpEds.  Let's start with Connecticut attorney Richard Meehan Jr.'s column, "Jury selection in capital case an arduous, tricky process," for the Norwich Bulletin.Jury selection began this week in the trial of Steven Hayes, one of two men charged in the brutal deaths of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters in 2007. The process, known as voir dire, is slated to take up to six months. A jury of 12 and four alternates will eventually be seated. Two additional potential alternates will be selected in the event that any of the others are unable to attend the start of the trial, scheduled to begin Sept. 13. If not needed, those extra alternates will be discharged...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 22, 2010 (boomark / email).