Jury selection is scheduled this week in a potential death penalty capital murder case, involving the 2011 death of a 2-year-old child.
A final pretrial hearing in the case against Arturo Aguilar Vega is scheduled Monday morning in the 354th District Court.
A general jury pool setting is scheduled Wednesday and individual juror interviews is set to begin on October 13.
A trial date will be announced once a jury is chosen in the case.
Vega has pleaded not guilty in the death of Brandon Herrera and is the first of two defendants charged in the case to face trial.
New indictments against Vega and Gabriela Ortiz were released March 28 and include several more potential causes of Herrera’s death in July 2011.
Vega and Ortiz both remain in custody in the Hunt County Jail, each in lieu of $2 million bond.
The Hunt County District Attorney’s Office is seeking the death penalty for Vega and for Ortiz, should they be convicted of capital murder.
The original indictments filed against the pair claimed Herrera died as the result of either blunt force trauma, choking/strangling or smothering.
The new indictments include additional potential causes of Herrera’s death, including blunt force trauma, chronic blunt force trauma, choking/strangling, smothering, causing the victim to be dehydrated, causing Herrera to suffer malnutrition, suffocation and/or arrhythmia.
Ortiz does not currently have a trial date set in the case.