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Courtroom packed as jury selection resumes
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jury selection resumed today in the Barton Corbin trial without any explanation of the abrupt day-and-a-half hiatus that a judge had ordered.
On Tuesday, Gwinnett Superior Court Judge Michael Clark halted jury selection in the murder case until today and blamed “scheduling conflicts.”
Attorneys met in a closed door session early this morning but then began questioning potential jurors.
Corbin is charged with killing his wife, Jennifer Corbin, in 2004. She was found dead in their Buford home from a bullet to the head.
The courtroom was unusually packed this morning as family members and media filled the court benches.
For several days only the mothers of Jennifer and Bart Corbin had been in court. But today Jennifer’s father, mother, sisters, brother-in-law were there. On Bart Corbin’s side his mother, twin brother and sister-in-law were in attendance.
Corbin also faces trial later in the 1990 shooting death of his girlfriend, Dorothy “Dolly” Hearn. The Dacula dentist has said that he is innocent and that both women committed suicide.
Corbin was attentive during the questioning of jurors today, passing notes to his attorneys. And the for the first time during the jury selection process jury consultant Denise de La Rue was in the courtroom.
De La Rue has has worked on several high-profile cases, including those of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, child murderer Susan Smith and football star Ray Lewis.
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Jury selection resumes
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jury selection resumed today in the Barton Corbin trial without any explanation of the abrupt day-and-a-half hiatus that a judge had ordered.
On Tuesday, Gwinnett Superior Court Judge Michael Clark halted jury selection in the murder case until today and blamed “scheduling conflicts.”
Attorneys met in a closed door session early this morning but then began questioning potential jurors.
Corbin is charged with killing his wife, Jennifer Corbin, in 2004. She was found dead in their Buford home from a bullet to the head.
The courtroom was unusually packed this morning as family members and media filled the court benches.
For several days only the mothers of Jennifer and Bart Corbin had been in court. But today Jennifer’s father, mother, sisters, brother-in-law were there. On Bart Corbin’s side his mother, twin brother and sister-in-law were in attendance.
Corbin also faces trial later in the 1990 shooting death of his girlfriend, Dorothy “Dolly” Hearn. The Dacula dentist has said that he is innocent and that both women committed suicide.
Corbin was attentive during the questioning of jurors today, passing notes to his attorneys. And the for the first time during the jury selection process jury consultant Denise de La Rue was in the courtroom.
De La Rue has has worked on several high-profile cases, including those of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, child murderer Susan Smith and football star Ray Lewis.
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