Donnie Rowe Trial: Jury Selection Almost Complete | Trial Set To Begin Monday
Summary
The death penalty trial of Donnie Rowe is one step closer to getting started after the jury qualification process was finished on Thursday. A total of 56 Grady County residents have been qualified out of a pool of about 600. […]
The death penalty trial of Donnie Rowe is one step closer to getting started after the jury qualification process was finished on Thursday.
A total of 56 Grady County residents have been qualified out of a pool of about 600.
On Friday, those 56 will be cut down to a final jury of 12 and 5 alternates.
Those 17 are expected to then be taken to the Lake Area for the trial to begin Monday morning at the Putnam County Courthouse. The jury will be sequestered during the trial.
Rowe is one of the two men accused of killing two state correctional officers on a prison bus in Putnam County in 2017.
The jury had to be picked from outside our area because of the media attention for the prison escape and deaths of the officers.
Ricky Dubose will be tried separately for the deaths of officers Curtis Billue and Christopher Monica.
Sgt. Billue and Sgt. Moncia were officers at Baldwin State Prison and members of the Transportation Unit.