Days or weeks? Jury selection is under judges’ control

By KATHLEEN FOODY
Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) — Legal experts say the speedy selection process for jurors in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse in Wisconsin this week doesn’t mean they are any less capable of delivering a fair verdict. It took the judge and attorneys in Wisconsin just one day to choose the panel of 12 jurors and eight alternates for Rittenhouse’s trial. The 18-year-old is charged with shooting three men during a protest in Kenosha, killing two of them. Some worry comparisons to longer jury selection processes in other high profile homicide cases could undercut the Kenosha panel’s credibility.