Overview
- State District Judge Joel Perez directed prosecutors and defense attorneys to confer on beginning voir dire as early as March.
- Both sides told the court they expect roughly four weeks to seat a death-qualified jury.
- Further hearings are planned on the defense motion to suppress Clare’s recorded jail statements to a child protective services investigator.
- Prosecutors previously said the firearm linked to the shooting was recovered and submitted to the Bexar County Crime Lab for testing.
- Clare, 53, remains jailed on capital murder and related charges in the April 2023 attack that killed his 11-month-old daughter and injured family members.