New jury selected for murder trial in Lubbock El Santiago bar shooting - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

The case involves a 23-year-old man charged in connection with a shooting at the north Lubbock club roughly a year ago. Attorneys for the state and the defense spent Monday working through jury selection before 364th District Judge Eichman, narrowing the pool down to a panel they believed could hear the case.

The wrinkle came after court let out. One of the selected jurors told the judge that sitting in judgment on a murder case conflicted with her conscience. "It just doesn't feel right," she told the court, saying the weight of such evidence would amount to an assault on her conscience.

For people in Lubbock following the case, Monday's development means the trial is off to a shaky start before a single piece of evidence has been presented. Jury selection is often the quietest part of a trial, but a juror raising objections after being seated is unusual enough to signal the proceedings could be drawn out longer than expected.

The trial now heads into its next phase with the question of that juror's seat still unresolved.