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Jury selection set to begin in machete killing trial

Jury selection set to begin in machete killing trial

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ALFRED, Maine (AP) Jury selection is due to start in the trial of a Maine man charged with killing a neighbor with a machete.

Lawyers hoped to begin jury selection Thursday after an evidentiary hearing in the trial of Bruce Akers, of Limington. He’s accused of killing 55-year-old Douglas Flint on June 9, 2016, and hiding his body under a pile of rotting deer carcasses.

Akers was found incompetent to stand trial in July 2018, before he was treated at Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta. He was later found to have “the full range of skills associated with trial competence.”

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