By Angela Weatherford
Mon, May 12 2008
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Jury selection in the capital murder trial of Randall Wayne Mays is scheduled to begin Wednesday at the Cain Center in Athens.
The Henderson County County Clerk’s Office mailed out 600 jury summonses on March 3 — about 400 more than usually sent out for a standard murder trial. The jury selection process is being held at the Cain Center because of the large number of potential jurors being summoned.
A pre-trial hearing is scheduled for March 24 at 1:30 p.m. in the 392nd District Court.
Mays is accused of fatally shooting Henderson County Sheriff’s Department Investigator Paul Steven Habelt, 63, and Deputy Tony Ogburn, 61, on May 17, 2008. The officers were killed after responding to a disturbance at a residence in Payne Springs.
A third officer, HCSD Deputy Kevin Harris, was shot in the leg during the May 17 shooting. He survived, and has been present at many of the pre-trials for the case.
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