Overview

• Separate juries were seated for Carlos Hernandez, 37, and Joshua Zuazo, 39, with both cases proceeding simultaneously in one courtroom.
• Opening statements were delivered Tuesday to Hernandez’s jury, and Zuazo’s jury is scheduled to hear openings Wednesday morning.
• Prosecutors outlined claims that Hernandez prepared the ruse in advance, including buying DTE signs, using a stolen truck, and visiting the Murrays’ Hamtramck shop a year earlier.
• Hernandez’s defense acknowledged the impersonation to gain entry but argued Murray’s death was not intended and that Hernandez did not take part in the beating.
• Investigators say the suspects returned after a late-night visit, led Murray to the basement where he was later found dead, and bound his wife, with the medical examiner citing blunt force trauma and apparent strangulation.