A juror in the capital murder trial of an ex-Border Patrol agent was dismissed Monday after fainting while graphic autopsy photos were shown to the jury.
The male juror fainted moments after Webb County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Corinne Stern took the witness stand in Day 6 of the trial of Juan David Ortiz.
Stern ended up examining the juror, who was OK. Judge Oscar Hale dismissed the juror for the remainder of the trial and replaced him with an alternate juror.Here's a condensed version of what went down on Day 6 of the Juan David Ortiz trial. Before Stern’s testimony, two prosecution witnesses testified about evidence collected in the murder cases.Webb County Deputy Brandon Stern told jurors about bullet fragments from a 40-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol he collected from the crime scene off the access road at Interstate 35 and the 22-mile marker.
Defense attorney Joel Perez objected to the prosecution presenting the collection evidence, claiming relevance and chain of custody, saying that Ugarte couldn’t prove that the DPS Crime Lab put one of the items back in a bag. The judge denied the objection.
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