As trial date nears, Meechaiel Criner’s defense spar over jury questions

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Defense and prosecution stood before Judge David Wahlberg at a Travis County courtroom Thursday morning in a pre-trial hearing for the case charging Meechaiel Criner with capital murder.
Criner, 19, is charged with capital murder in the 2016 death of University of Texas at Austin student Haruka Weiser, a charge he has pled not guilty too. Criner was arrested two days after Weiser’s body was found. Because he was 17 years old at the time of the homicide, Criner is