Welcome to the Circuit Court of Cook County, one of the largest unified court

systems in the world. In the United States, the right to a trial by jury is guaranteed by your service you will be participating

in a 200-year-old jury system that is unlike any other. From W.B.E. Z. Chicago and the Chicago Tribune,

this is 16 shots, the police shooting of Lacanne McDonald I'm Jen White and we have a jury

We're here today to see if this is a bench trial

Wasn't a decision?

Yes, Judge.

As you know, we have a pending change of venue motion.

Listen, I let me know, I understand, of course I know.

Without waiving any of those arguments that we've made, the defendant will opt for a jury trial.

Yesterday, the final juror plus five alternates were selected.

Judge Gawn hasn't ruled yet on a defense

request to move the trial out of Cook County, but he did rule on another motion.

The defense asked the judge to throw out the whole jury that's been selected because they

claim those jurors may have been intimidated by the protesters outside the

courthouse. Ghan rejected that motion today.

We had a very thorough voir dire examination of the potential jurors and a lot were struck,

a lot were, but the ones that were impaneled, did not have that fear, were not intimidated.

So we now know the 12 jurors who will decide if Officer Jason Van Dyke committed murder

when he shot Lequonne McDonald 16 times in 2014.

W.B.E. Z. Shannon Heffernan reported on the jury selection process this week

and she's at the latent criminal courthouse now. Shannon even after almost a week

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