Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Huguely Trial Day 2: Jury Selection

((HT: WHSV-TV Harrisburg, VA))

The murder trial of George Huguely is underway in Charlottesville. He is charged with the murder of his former girlfriend, UVA lacrosse player Yeardley Love.

The jury pool is currently at 150 to start and the idea is to get 12 plus a satisfactory number of alternate jurors from a final number of 27.

Here's the morning update from CBS19's Carter Johnson...


Forty-one potential jurors were scheduled to appear Tuesday morning, but six were absent.

Nine of the first group of 15 were asked to stay for more questioning by both groups of attorneys, but they were all eventually dismissed. One other potential juror was sent home for undisclosed medical reasons.

More as we know more...

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