Jurors to Be Locked Up in Hotel Rooms

The American Press reports that District Judge Al Gray has determined that jurors for the second trial of Ricky Langley will be selected in New Orleans then sequestered in Lake Charles for the duration of the trial.

"Langley was sentenced to death in July of 1994 after being convicted in connection with the Feb. 7, 1992, slaying and alleged sodomizing of 6-year-old Jeremy Guillory of Iowa. However, on April 3, 2000, the state Supreme Court granted Langley a new trial — abiding by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in an Evangeline Parish case."

Posted by AJR at February 12, 2003 07:09 AM