Trial Set To Begin in 2012 Murder of Infant and Grandmother in Montco
By Brad Segall
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (CBS) -- Testimony is scheduled to begin tomorrow morning in the trial of an Upper Merion man accused of murdering a ten-month-old baby and her grandmother nearly two years ago inside their King of Prussia apartment, in what prosecutors say was a botched kidnapping attempt.
It took nearly seven days and a pool of more than 180 potential jurors, but the defense and prosecution have finished picking a jury to hear the case against Raghu Yandamuri.
The jury is made up of six men and six women, plus four alternates.
The judge has given Yandamuri every chance to bring his "standby" attorney back into the case, but the 28-year-old man indicated he still wants to represent himself and plans to deliver an opening statement to the jury when the trial begins.
Prosecutors say Yandamuri brutally stabbed the grandmother, then suffocated the baby and dumped her body. He's expected to tell the jury that he was forced to go to the apartment by two men who committed the crimes. Those two men have never been found.