COLUMBUS, Ohio ( WCMH ) – A jury has been seated in the murder trial of a former sheriff’s deputy who killed a Black man outside his grandmother’s house.
Opening statements, originally expected Tuesday afternoon, will now happen Wednesday morning in the case against Jason Meade, a former Franklin County sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr. in December 2020. Meade faces two counts of murder and one count of reckless homicide for shooting Goodson on Estates Place in Columbus’ northwest side.
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The jury selection process began last week with prospective jurors answering 99 questions . Individual questioning, which began Monday, ranged from asking prospective jurors about their opinion on the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements to the coverage they had consumed related to Goodson’s death — to whether law enforcement “acted professionally” if they or a family member had ever been arrested.