"Judge sets date for pretrial hearing in Jacques case," by Sam Hemingway from the Burlington Free Press.
Judge William K. Sessions III has scheduled an Aug. 15 pretrial hearing in the death-penalty case of Michael Jacques, the East Randolph man charged with kidnapping and killing his 12-year-old niece, Brooke Bennett, in 2008.
The hearing, expected to address questions about how to pick an impartial jury in the high-profile case, comes 19 days before jury selection is scheduled to begin at U.S. District Court in Burlington.
Sessions has indicated that up to 5,000 Vermonters from the northern half of the state might be queried before the 12-person jury is picked.
Jury selection is expected take a month to complete, and the trial to follow is projected to last two months or more. He has pleaded not guilty and faces the death penalty if found guilty.
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