Jury selection continues Monday in the murder trial of a man whose lawyers are trying to prove his childhood in war-torn Iraq made him insane and therefore not guilty of the crimes.

Defense attorney Mark Sisti of Chichester and prosecutor Jeffrey Strelzin of the state Attorney General’s Office will be seating the final jurors in the trial of Hassan Sapry, now 27, who is charged with nine offenses including first- and second-degree murder in the death of Wilfred Guzman Sr. in Laconia on April 18, 2019.

Sapry’s first trial in 2022 was declared a mistrial. His second trial is scheduled to begin on Tuesday.

Defense attorneys are employing an insanity defense, which has had little success in any state. New Hampshire is the only state to use the Durham Product Test, in which the defense must

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