A former Marine facing a potential death sentence if he is convicted of killing a Navy petty officer will go to trial in January 2013.
Jorge Torrez is charged with first-degree murder in the July 2009 slaying of 20-year-old Amanda J. Snell, who was killed in her Fort Myer-Henderson Hall barracks. Potential jurors will convene Jan. 9 to fill out a questionnaire and questioning of jurors is slated to begin Jan. 21, U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady said at a Thursday hearing. The trial is expected to take at least a month.
Torrez was convicted in 2010 of two Arlington County attacks and is suspected in the 2005 killing of two young girls near Chicago. The father of one of the girls spent five years in jail before Torrez was linked to the slayings by DNA.
— Emily Babay
