When court adjourned Monday night, there were 12 jurors sworn for the manslaughter trial of Ronald J. Wendt.
Now there are 11.
A juror was excused this morning for medical reasons.
About a dozen people from the original jury pool entered the court room today expecting to go through the interview process for the alternate jury seats, but now one of them will fill the 12th seat.
Then another juror sent a long note to Judge Robert C. Noonan this morning raising a number of concerns that he said came up over night related to his job. The juror also apparently discussed his situation with another juror.
After interviewing the juror who wrote the note, Noonan declined to dismiss him from service, saying that under New York statutes, once a juror is sworn the bar for removing a person from the jury becomes much higher.
Opening arguments in the case once all 12 jurors and alternates are seated.
