Larger than normal jury pool will be screened for Maxwell Anderson's trial

A larger than mean assemblage excavation is being assembled for the proceedings of a Milwaukee antheral accused of slaying and dismembering 19-year-old assemblage student, Sade Robinson.

Maxwell Anderson, 34, appeared successful tribunal connected April 18 for the last clip earlier his May 27 homicide proceedings is expected to begin.

Discussion betwixt the lawyers and Circuit Court Judge Laura Crivello centered chiefly connected however galore imaginable jurors would beryllium chosen for the excavation and what questions to inquire them during the preliminary questioning of imaginable jurors.

Anthony Cotton, the Waukesha lawyer who is representing Anderson, said helium anticipated a excavation of astir 50 jurors. Assistant District Attorney Ian Vance-Curzan expected "north of 70" radical to beryllium vetted.

A excavation of 50 to 70 jurors is not the norm.

Typically, assemblage pools of 30 to 40 radical are called to service successful astir lawsuit earlier they are whittled down to a last sheet of 14 jurors who volition perceive testimony. Once grounds wraps up, 12 jurors are asked to deliberate; the others are dismissed.

Jury enactment is expected to get underway astatine 9 a.m. connected May 27. Anderson has pleaded not guilty to first-degree intentional homicide, mutilation of a corpse and arson of spot different than a gathering successful Robinson's brutal sidesplitting past year.

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When assemblage enactment begins, imaginable jurors volition beryllium asked a bid of questions, galore of which volition person been antecedently screened and agreed to by some lawyers.

Crivello ordered the questionnaires to beryllium supplied to the Milwaukee Jury Management Division good up of time. That bureau is successful complaint of sending retired assemblage work summonses to thousands of region residents each month.

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Prosecutors judge Anderson met up with Robinson, a Milwaukee Area Technical College transgression justness student, for a day connected April 1, 2024, and past killed her.

Body parts that person since been identified arsenic belonging to Robinson began surfacing astatine assorted locations successful Milwaukee County aft she was reported missing successful the days that followed.

Anderson has been successful custody astatine the Milwaukee County Jail since his April 4, 2024, arrest. Bond for his merchandise was acceptable astatine $5 million.

The proceedings primitively had been scheduled to commencement successful December, but attorneys successful the lawsuit asked that it beryllium adjourned until May 2025.

The proceedings is expected to past astir 2 weeks.

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This nonfiction primitively appeared connected Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Larger assemblage excavation volition beryllium screened for Maxwell Anderson's trial