FARMINGTON – Seven women and seven men, including two alternates, were chosen Wednesday to sit on the jury in the Joshua Oliver Osborne trial starting Monday.

Both the defense attorney and state prosecutor said jurors were chosen through a fair process.

Osborne, 23, is charged with attempted murder, criminal solicitation to commit murder and elevated aggravated assault. He is accused of shooting his mother in July in a dispute over the 140-acre family homestead farm on Osborne Road.

The farm has since been sold to a nonfamily member and a developer is proposing two subdivisions: West Grand View Estates and East Grand View Estates.

Osborne sat beside his attorney Kevin Joyce, both facing the potential jurors as jury selection continued Wednesday.

Justice Joseph Jabar read off eight more possible witnesses’ names to the 97 potential jurors to see if anyone knew them and how they knew them.

As was the case Tuesday, most jurors said they could be fair and impartial if the person they knew was a witness.

Only a few said they couldn’t be fair and impartial.

There were 44 potential witness names on the list in all.

People were also asked if they knew defense attorneys Kevin Joyce and Walter Hanstein, Osborne and state prosecutors Andrew Robinson and James Andrews.

Among the other questions, Jabar asked if anyone was a member of the National Rifle Association or any similar organization.

Another question was if people would be available Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for the trial.

Once questioning was complete, jurors waited for about a half-hour while attorneys and the judge left the room.

When they came back to the courtroom, a court clerk chose 32 names of potential jurors written on small white cards from a wooden box.

Then attorneys took a few minutes to look over their lists and then approached the sidebar of the judge’s bench with a court reporter.

After a brief conference, the court clerk read off 14 numbers and names of the jurors.

As each one’s name was called they took a seat in the jurors’ box in the order they were called.

Two women jurors were seated in the seats outside the jury box railing.

Jurors’ ages appeared to be between 20 and 50.

“I think it went about as expected,” Joyce said later. “I think it was a real fair process in the way the judge did it; fair for both the state and our side.”

Robinson agreed.

The trial is slated to start at 9 a.m. Monday at the Franklin County Superior Courthouse.

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