Lawyers selected a jury for the Laura Hall trial Monday - seven women and six men.

Hall, 23, is accused of dismembering the body of a 21-year-old woman and helping her murderer escape to Mexico in 2005. She's charged with hindering apprehension and tampering with evidence.

It took more than four hours for the state and Hall's lawyer, Joe James Sawyer, to narrow the group down from 79 potential jurors.

"We wanted to eliminate any chance that we were going to get
jurors who had been adversely affected by what I think was a
brilliantly spun story that very much favored the old offense," Sawyer said.

Earlier this year, a Travis County jury sentenced Colton
Pitonyak to 55 years in prison. He was charged with the death
and partial dismemberment of Jennifer Cave in August 2005. Her body was discovered by her stepfather in Pitonyak's West Campus apartment.

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The jury is expected to be subjected to some graphic testimony and pictures. In the future courts will have to provide counseling for them under the new Jennifer Cave Act. State Rep. John Otto was one of two legislators sponsoring the bill.

"The Caves were contacted by several jurors in the aftermath of
the first trial that were so troubled by the imagery they had
been subjected to in that first trial that they seeked counseling," Otto said.

Currently, courts are only required to provide counseling to
family members of victims. Cave's mother successfully
pushed to add jurors to that list.

The new law doesn't take effect until Sept. 1, so the jurors in Hall's trial won't benefit.

The trial beings Tuesday morning. Judge Wilford Flowers is
presiding over the case and told jurors today the trial could be over as early as Friday.