COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — After several delays, the murder trial for a retired Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputy is set to start next week.

Jason Meade is accused of shooting and killing 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr. in December 2020. The official jury selection is on Monday. Dozens of prospective jurors are already being pre-screened for this important job.

NBC4 has obtained a copy of the jury questionnaire that all prospective jurors need to fill out. It is 99 questions.

Capital University Law Professor and a former county prosecutor, Robert Barnhart, said a standard questionnaire is 20 to 30 questions. So, he said this shows how in-depth this selection process is and that this truly is a high-profile trial.

“This, for a non-capital case, is an unusual amount of questions. Usually you just get the basics and then you go from there,” Barnhart said. “But this is a particularized questionnaire, probably to save time if we have a lot of jurors and I have to ask them all these questions, which to get theoretically a fair jury, I should be asking all these questions. We’re going to be here forever. And so it makes sense to have them write their answers out.”

Barnhart said they are probably using this to save time in the official jury selection Monday.

On the questionnaire, there are specific questions about their views on Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter. They also ask about how much information they know about the case – both local news coverage and social media talk.

Another question has to do with if they have any personal connections to Casey Goodson Jr. Or Jason Meade. There is also a section with a one through five rating asking opinions of law enforcement officers and social justice. Barnhart said he rarely sees something like that except in capital cases or high-profile cases.

“”The key isn’t whether folks, though, have prior opinions. And I think good lawyers and good judges recognize that everybody has prior opinions,” Barnhart said. “Nobody’s a blank slate. It is harder, though, to come in with that ideal blank slate, of course. And so what you ask people is, okay, you probably have prior opinions. Can you put those aside and hear this case as though you don’t.”

Barnhart said the biggest challenge for the judge will be getting that perfect amount of people. He said the biggest challenge for the parties is that they do not get to hand-pick the jury; they just have a say in why or why not that person.

The official selection will happen on Monday. Opening statements are set for Tuesday and we are expecting this trial to last about two weeks.