Jury selection has been completed for Guy Turcotte's second trial for the deaths of his children.
Last week Judge André Vincent began listening to excuses from the 1650 people called for jury duty, and eliminated all but 355 candidates.
On Tuesday morning lawyers for the Crown and for the accused began going through the members of the jury pool to choose or reject would-be jurors.
Although it had been anticipated it would take about a week, lawyers managed to find a full jury of 12 members and several alternates before the day was out.
Observers were expecting the first witness to testify at the end of September, and that the trial would last three months.
The new jury will not hear what was said in the first trial.
Turcotte has pleaded not guilty to the first-degree murder of his children, five-year-old Olivier and three-year-old Anne-Sophie.
With a file from the Canadian Presse
