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Jury selection enters seventh day in Faith Hedgepeth murder trial
Original: Jury selection stretches into seventh day in Faith Hedgepeth murder trial
Jury selection in the murder trial of Faith Hedgepeth, a University of North Carolina student killed in 2012, has stretched into a seventh day, according to local reporting. The prolonged process reflects the difficulty of seating an impartial panel in a long-awaited case that has drawn sustained public attention in North Carolina for more than a decade.
Why now: The case drew national attention for years, and the slow jury selection in the long-awaited trial is keeping public interest high.
Faith HedgepethUniversity of North CarolinaNorth Carolina
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