Kaylon Bailey, right, listens to attorneys Zak Newman, left, and Mike Acuff in Judge Rebecca Stern’s courtroom Tuesday during jury selection for his second trial.It wasn’t until the 96 potential jurors entered Hamilton County Criminal Court Judge Rebecca Stern’s courtroom Tuesday morning that they learned some of them wouldn’t be sleeping at home for the next few days.
Stern has called for a sequestered jury in the retrial of Kaylon Bailey this week.
Bailey, who turns 37 on Friday, has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Kima Evans, 35, at the home of Evans’ mother at 1706 Cambridge Drive on Jan. 13, 2012.
New jurors are hearing the trial because, at the end of the June trial, a juror admitted during deliberations that he’d researched Bailey’s criminal history online.
Stern declared a mistrial after the jury foreman notified her of the information and the juror admitted to the research.