Overview

• A jury was selected at the High Court in Auckland as Justice Geoffrey Venning entered not guilty pleas for Hakyung Lee.
• New Zealand outlets reported Lee appeared to represent herself with two lawyers on standby and she did not speak when asked to plead.
• Court documents say forensic testing detected prescription sleeping medication in the children’s bodies, though the cause of death remains undetermined.
• The siblings, Minu Jo, 6, and Yuna Jo, 8, were discovered in 2022 inside luggage from an abandoned storage unit after its contents were auctioned.
• The judge told jurors they would likely be asked to consider Lee’s sanity at the time of the alleged killings, and he allowed her to view proceedings from another room.