Morning Interviews Yield Handful of Jurors for Wayland Murder Trial
Some juror selections made in trial of Nathaniel Fujita, accused of killing Lauren Astley.
A long morning of interviewing potential jurors resulted in six individuals being seated on an eventual 16-member panel that will decide the verdict in the case of Nathaniel Fujita, the Wayland High School graduate accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend and classmate Lauren Astley in 2011. Fujita has pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder, two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and assault-and-battery related to the death of 18-year-old Astley, whose body was found in a Wayland marsh on July 4, 2011. Three men and three women had been chosen by early afternoon Monday from a pool of about 92 potential jurors that filed into Middlesex Superior Court Judge Peter Lauriat’s courtroom Monday morning. Potential…
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