Bisard Jury Selection To Start

Jury selection was set to begin today in Fort Wayne in the trial of a suspended IMPD officer accused of drunk driving when he crashed into two motorcycles, killing a man and seriously injuring two other people.

The trial of David Bisard on reckless homicide and drunken driving charges has been moved to Allen Superior Court because of extensive pretrial publicity. Judge John Surbeck will preside, and has ruled two vials of blood showing Bisard was legally drunk hours after a fatal crash can be used against him at his trial. The vials have been the subject of a drawn-out legal debate in the more than three years since Bisard's patrol car struck the motorcycles stopped at a northeast side intersection light.

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