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The defendant was apprehended inside the Squirrel Hill synagogue and confessed to police who wounded him in a gunbattle. At trial, the opening words of his defense team included an admission that their client killed 11 people who were worshipping inside the Tree of Life synagogue on the morning of
The panel of prospective jurors who will hear the case against a man accused of killing 11 people at a Squirrel Hill synagogue is set. After 17 days of questioning over four weeks, 69 people have moved into the pool from which 12 jurors and six alternates will be selected
The plan is to assemble a large enough pool of eligible jurors before lawyers on both sides start using their strikes — each gets 20 — to arrive at 12 jurors and six alternates.
Questions about feelings on the death penalty continued to dominate the process on the fifth day of jury selection in the case against a man accused of killing 11 people at a Squirrel Hill synagogue in 2018. Through Friday, the government and defense have interviewed 81 prospective jurors, and, of
The defense said family members should not be allowed to describe how they learned of the massacre or their last contacts with the victims.