Jury Selection Begins Today in Wayland Murder Trial
Nathaniel Fujita will face trial beginning today in the 2011 murder of Lauren Astley, whose body was found on the Sudbury/Wayland line.
A courtroom at Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn will today see a host of potential jurors for the trial of Nathaniel Fujita, the Wayland man accused of brutally killing his ex-girlfriend and fellow Wayland High School Class of 2011 graduate Lauren Astley. Fujita's lawyer, William Sullivan, has preemptively filed the paperwork for a possible change of venue should the defense and prosecution be unable to seat a panel of jurors given the substantial press this case receives since Astley's murder on July 3, 2011. Astley's body was found in a swampy area off Water Row in Wayland, near the Sudbury line. Patch will be covering the trial, much as we have as the legal process has unfolded throughout the past 19 months since Fujita's arrest. …
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