Jury Selection to Start in Slaying Retrial ; This Time, Evidence That Unfairly Prejudiced the Last Jury Against the Defendant Will Not Be Admitted.

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For the second time, Brandon Thongsavanh will stand trial in the murder of Morgan McDuffee, a Bates College senior who was stabbed to death while trying to break up a street fight on March 3, 2002.

The state's case is essentially the same: Prosecutors will try to prove that Thongsavanh is guilty of an unprovoked attack against a defenseless victim. But because his first conviction was overturned by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court last year, the second trial will have some major differences.

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Jury Selection to Start in Slaying Retrial ; This Time, Evidence That Unfairly Prejudiced the Last Jury Against the Defendant Will Not Be Admitted.

This time, jurors will not see or hear about the "explosive" T- shirt Thongsavanh was wearing the night McDuffee died, which had a slogan identifying Jesus with an obscene word. The prejudice...

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