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DEL.ICIO.US14 more potential Corbin jurors dismissed; sequestration possible
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jury selection continued this morning in the murder trial of Dacula dentist Barton Corbin as 14 more potential jurors were dismissed.
Presiding Judge Michael Clark is now telling potential jurors that they may be sequestered.
Dismissed were a Snellville police officer, four college students and one man who just moved from Gwinnett County to DeKalb County. Four primary care givers, people with children age six and under, have been excused, along with two more college students, a man moving to Virginia in two weeks and a woman who said English was her second language.
But a woman who was eight months and three weeks pregnant was not dismissed from being a potential juror.
Gwinnett court officials have summoned 675 Gwinnett residents for the upcoming murder trial. Corbin, a former dentist, is accused of the 2004 death of his wife Jennifer and the 1990 Augusta death of his then-college girlfriend Dorothy “Dolly” Hearn.
As of Thursday, presiding Clark had dismissed about 100 potential jurors who submitted legitimate excuses.
Court officials believe the trial could start on Sept. 25 and go on until late October.
Officials have not decided if the jury will be sequestered, which would require they live in a hotel for the duration of the trial to ensure that they do not follow media coverage.
One of Corbin’s attorneys, David Wolfe, today asked Clark about sequestering the jury.
“We had one hotel lined up but they backed out. Sequestration can make it hard to seat a jury,” Clark said.
Wolfe went on to say he wanted the jury sequestered because of “what we’ve seen in the media so far.”
The remaining potential jurors are scheduled to fill out a lengthy questionnaire today. Attorneys will begin questioning them Monday.
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