More than 200 potential jurors were summoned Tuesday to a Georgia courthouse to face questions about whether they can serve impartially in the trial of a former prosecutor accused of meddling with police as they investigated the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery.

Jackie Johnson served as district attorney when Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was chased by three white men in pickup trucks and fatally shot on a residential street. Johnson’s misconduct trial will be held in the same courthouse where Arbery’s assailants were convicted of murder in 2021.

Officials summoned a large pool of potential jurors given the notoriety of Arbery’s killing and Johnson’s public profile during her decade as the top prosecutor in coastal Glynn County.

Superior Court Clerk Rebecca Walden said her office mailed out jury duty notices to 500 people. More than 200 had filled out and returned juror questionnaires, she said. Some others were excused from jury duty, or their mailings were returned as undeliverable.

Potential jurors will be asked what they’ve read or heard about Arbery’s killing and the case against Johnson, and whether they’re able to serve as impartial jurors. Walden said she suspects it could take a week to select a jury of 12 members plus alternates.

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