BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) Jury selection is starting in the trial of a Maine man accused of raping, beating and strangling a former Mount Desert Island High School classmate.
The trial of Jalique Keene will begin in Superior Court in Ellsworth after a jury is seated. Jury selection gets underway Monday.
Keene, who’s 21, is accused of killing 19-year-old Mikaela Conley, of Bar Harbor, and hiding her body in the woods behind a school. Court documents indicate a surveillance video showed him carrying Conley over his shoulder as she resisted. He was later seen dragging her body away.
Keene and Conley both attended Mount Desert High School, where Keene was a running back for the football team. He’d just returned from Europe where he was playing professional football before Conley was killed last June.
