MONTREAL – Twelve jurors have been selected in the first-degree murder case of former cardiologist Guy Turcotte in Saint-Jérôme.
They are seven men and five women.
Judge André Vincent spent the last week hearing exemption arguments and the court selected 12 people from the remaining 355 possible candidates.
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Originally, about 1,600 possible jurors were summoned.
Turcotte’s lawyers were able to recuse up to 20 candidates without saying why.
After that, they could refuse any number of jurors with a valid reason.
Back in 2011, Turcotte was found “not criminally responsible” for the deaths of his two children, Olivier, 5, and Anne-Sophie, 3.
He was sent to an institution for treatment before Quebec’s court of appeal overturned the verdict in 2013 and ordered a new trial.
Turcotte has pleaded not guilty.
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