{"id":409,"date":"2016-10-06T10:15:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=409"},"modified":"2016-10-06T10:15:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:15:18","slug":"pedro-hernandez-retrial-juror-questioning-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/10\/06\/pedro-hernandez-retrial-juror-questioning-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Hernandez Retrial, Juror Questioning Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questioning of potential\u00a0jurors began Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court for the upcoming retrial of Pedro Hernandez. \u00a0Hernandez was\u00a0charged with kidnapping and murder in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz.<br \/>\nThe first trial of Hernandez, 53, \u00a0ended in a deadlocked jury last year. \u00a0He confessed to the unsolved crime, but his defense says\u00a0it was a delusion caused by mental problems.<\/p>\n<p>150 possible jurors have been screened\u00a0by Justice Maxwell Wiley for a trial that could last months. \u00a0A group of 16 \u00a0will be questioned Thursday by lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>The public history of the case was evident\u00a0during questioning Wednesday. \u00a0As one juror put it: \u201cHe confessed,\u201d \u00a0\u201cWhy not sentence him?\u201d \u00a0Justice\u00a0Wiley said he expects the final selection of a jury to continue for another\u00a0week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Questioning of potential\u00a0jurors began Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court for the upcoming retrial of Pedro Hernandez. \u00a0Hernandez was\u00a0charged with kidnapping and murder in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz. The first trial of Hernandez, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/10\/06\/pedro-hernandez-retrial-juror-questioning-begins\/\" title=\"Pedro Hernandez Retrial, Juror Questioning Begins\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[131,132,51,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa","8":"tag-etan-patz","9":"tag-jury-selection","10":"tag-murder","11":"tag-pedro-hernandez","12":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}