Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the trial of an ex-Fort Worth police officer charged with murder.
on the early morning hours of Oct. 12, 2019. Jefferson was shot by Dean through a window of her mother’s home after a neighbor’s call to a non-emergency line over an open door at the home.“It is a case that rightfully has received a lot of attention and people have heard facts or circumstances surrounding what happened,” defense attorney Benson Varghese said.Sign up for NBC DFW newslettersVarghese is not associated with the case, but he has been following it.
The case had multiple delays due to the pandemic, scheduling conflicts, and various motions filed. Recently, Dean’s. They claim pre-trial publicity has been excessive and inflammatory, tainting a possible jury pool. NBC 5 spoke with former Dallas County prosecutor Haim Vasquez, who is also not associated with the case, on what kinds of questions potential jurors will be asked.
The process is less about selecting the 12 jurors and more about eliminating those who are not fit to serve on the jury, he said.
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