FORT WORTH, Texas — The day after the death of lead defense attorney Jim Lane, jury selection began Monday afternoon in the murder trial of former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean.
Dean’s trial in the 2019 shooting death of Atatiana Jefferson is scheduled to begin Dec. 5, and 396th District Court Judge George Gallagher said he expected the trial to conclude the middle of the following week.
At a pretrial hearing last week, Gallagher suggested that he would wait until jury selection was underway to make a final ruling on a defense motion for a change of venue, which, if granted, would move the trial out of Tarrant County.
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