WOODLAND, Calif. — Jury selection began Friday in Yolo County Superior Court for the retrial of Carlos Reales Dominguez, the former UC Davis student charged in the 2023 Davis stabbings that left two people dead and one injured, as the court prepared to seat jurors ahead of opening statements scheduled for May 26.
The retrial comes nearly a year after Dominguez’s first trial ended in a hung jury. Jurors reportedly voted 10-2 in favor of acquittal on second-degree murder charges but failed to reach unanimous verdicts on the remaining counts. Dominguez has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Judge Samuel T. McAdam opened proceedings Friday by addressing prospective jurors gathered both in the courtroom and through a livestream overflow system because of the large number of jurors summoned for the case…