Jury selection started today in the capital murder trial of Dr. Thomas Dixon.  Dixon is accused of hiring a hitman to kill Covenant Medical Center pathologist Dr. Joseph Sonnier in July 2012.

KAMC News reports today’s round of jury selection took eight hours with lawyers from both sides questioning 100 potential jurors.  The hitman, David Neal Shepard, confessed to killing Sonnier and was sentenced to life in prison. The jury selection process, and pretrial motions, continues tomorrow.

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