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Jose Ibarra On Trial For Murder Of Laken Riley

Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard, right, confers with prosecutors and attorneys for Jose Ibarra during the second day of the trial of Jose Ibarra at Athens-Clarke County Superior Court on Monda

Jose Ibarra, the suspect accused of murdering Augusta University student Laken Riley in February while she was on a morning run, is currently on trial for the alleged crime. The trial, now in its second day, is taking place in Superior Court Judge Patrick Haggard's courtroom at the Athens-Clarke County courthouse.

Prosecutors claim that Ibarra, a 26-year-old illegal immigrant from Venezuela, attacked and killed Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, while she was jogging along trails near Lake Herrick on the University of Georgia campus in Athens on the morning of Feb. 22.

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