Day 2 of the Stephen Grant trial will continue on Tuesday morning.

Grant is charged in Macomb County with killing and mutilating his wife, 34-year-old Tara Grant.

The trial is scheduled to reconvene at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. Alicia Standerfer, Grant's wife's sister, is scheduled to be the first witness.

The first day of the trial was on Friday afternoon, just moments after a two-week jury selection finished Friday morning.

Grant pleaded guilty to the mutilation charge against him.

When the trial convened, the prosecution walked the jury through Grant's alleged confession made just after his capture in Northern Michigan in March.

The prosecutor also told of how Grant allegedly sent a text message moments after he strangled Tara to his au pair, Verena Derkes, 19, of Germany, writing that she owed him a kiss.

Grant's defense attorney told the jury that he was not arguing that Grant did not kill his wife, Tara. He was arguing that the crime was not premeditated and Grant was not guilty of first-degree murder.

The selection of 12 jurors and four alternates took two weeks as defense and prosecuting attorneys considered 400 candidates. The process to pick the 10 women and six men took longer than Judge Diane Druzinski and other officials expected because nearly every candidate said they had heard about the case.

The jury includes two nurses, one paramedic and one salesperson.

At the time, Grant had insisted he had nothing to do with his wife's disappearance.

He was arrested in early March in the far northern Lower Peninsula.

Also on Friday, Druzinski ruled there would be no change of venue. The trial will take place in Macomb County.

Thursday, a judge ruled that there would be no electronic media in the courtroom for the trial.

A permanent custody hearing is planned for January.

However, on Wednesday, Stephen Grant's sister, Kelly Utykanski, and Tara Grant's sister, Alicia Standerfer, were in court for a hearing about a custody visit with Grant's children.

Utykanski would like a three-day, unsupervised visit at her Michigan home during the holidays, and so far it appears that will happen.

Right now the children are staying in Ohio with Standerfer.