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Jury selection in Lanier boat deaths trial to continue Tuesday
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Paul Bennett watches as jury selection takes place Monday in Judge Kathlene F. Gosselin’s Hall County Superior Courtroom. Bennett is accused in the 2012 boating deaths of Buford boys Jake and Griffin Prince.
Jury selection is set to continue today in the trial of Paul J. Bennett, charged with homicide in a June 18, 2012, boat collision that killed two boys. Bennett, 45, of Cumming, is on trial in Hall County Superior Court, charged with eight counts of homicide by vessel, failure to render aid, reckless operation of a vessel and boating under the influence. The accident left two brothers dead, Buford boys Jake Prince, 9, and Griffin Prince, 13.