Lawyers set to select jury for Alabama woman’s trial in girl’s running death
GADSDEN, Ala. – Lawyers are ready to select a jury for the trial of an Alabama woman charged with capital murder in her granddaughter’s running death.
Attorneys are due in court Friday afternoon to pick a jury for the trial of 59-year-old Joyce Hardin Garrard of Boaz.
Weather could be a problem following a second round of wintry precipitation in north Alabama in a week. But testimony is expected to begin Monday if things go as scheduled.
Prosecutors say Garrard made her 9-year-old granddaughter Savannah Hardin run for hours as punishment for a lie. The girl eventually collapsed and died later in a hospital.
Garrard says she’s innocent. The defence says she didn’t mean the girl any harm.
Defence lawyers also are asking the judge to move the trial outside of Gadsden.
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