Sarah Boone trial: Jury selection continues on day two of trial
ORLANDO, Fl - The second day of the Sarah Boone murder trial continues with jury selection at the Orange County Courthouse on Tuesday.
Another panel of 50 potential jurors will be questioned Tuesday after 100 were brought in Monday.
The tricky thing with this jury selection is that this trial is expected to last about 3 weeks.
FOX 35's Stephanie Buffamonte spoke to some of the jurors who were not selected, they said the length of the trial is what they had a problem with. Many people said they couldn't afford to be out of work for that long.
Evidence debated ahead of Sarah Boone murder trial
In body camera footage, Sarah Boone can be heard admitting to zipping her boyfriend, Jorge Torres, into a suitcase and later waking up to find him dead. Boone told deputies in 2020 that she and Torres, her boyfriend of three and a half years, were playing a drunken game of hide-and-seek when the incident occurred.
The other issue is that this is a high-profile case and, according to court officials, many potential jurors have seen the phone video, interrogation video, photos of the suitcase and the body-cam video.
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Both the state and the defense have expressed they would prefer jurors to not have seen this evidence before the trial.
FOX 35 will have live updates on the Sarah Boone trial as they are available.