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Jury selection stalls in Faith Hedgepeth murder trial

Original: Faith Hedgepeth murder: Prosecutor and Miguel Salguero Olivares defense team struggling to fill alternate juror seats

Prosecutors and defense attorneys for Miguel Salguero Olivares, charged in the 2012 killing of University of North Carolina student Faith Hedgepeth, are struggling to fill alternate juror seats as jury selection continues in North Carolina. The difficulty seating alternates threatens to further delay a long-awaited trial in a case that has drawn attention for over a decade.

Why now: The stalled selection of alternate jurors is causing new delays in a decade-old murder case that has drawn sustained public attention.

Faith HedgepethMiguel Salguero OlivaresNorth Carolina

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