Attorneys spent Tuesday choosing the ultimate 15 jurors from a pool of 48. Three of the 15 might be alternate jurors.
On Tuesday morning, half of the 48 remaining potential jurors had been questioned by attorneys within the courtroom as a gaggle. The second half went by the same query session within the afternoon. Eight of the possible jurors from the afternoon group — seven males and one lady — had been chosen for jury service. The opposite seven remaining jurors chosen had been from the morning session, so they are going to obtain a cellphone name notifying them they’ve been chosen.
Courtroom officers initially gathered an expanded pool of 250 potential jurors, to account for the widespread publicity in Taylor’s demise, which sparked months of marches and protests in downtown Louisville in the summertime of 2020. From that enormous pool, the remaining 48 had been chosen after 4 days of particular person questioning earlier this month.
Taylor, a 26-year-old Black lady who labored as an emergency medical technician, was shot a number of instances throughout a botched narcotics raid on March 13, 2020. Louisville officers kicked in her door utilizing a narcotics warrant and drew hearth from Taylor’s boyfriend, who thought an intruder was breaking in. Two officers on the door returned hearth, killing Taylor.
One of many officers who shot Taylor, former Louisville police detective Jonathan Mattingly, has invoked his Fifth Modification privilege and won’t testify on the trial resulting from a pending federal investigation. Jurors will as an alternative hear elements of a video deposition Mattingly gave in a pending civil lawsuit.
The trial is anticipated to final about two weeks.