COLUMBIA -- The man charged with murder for killing his former brother in law in a McDonald’s parking lot will begin his jury trial today.

Billy Clinch, 38, of Hallsville will finally begin a jury trial after about two years of waiting. He faces charges of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the 2007 shooting death of Jeremy Bohannon of Rocheport.

Clinch was arraigned earlier this year after Boone County Prosecutor Dan Knight dropped and then re-filed the charges against Clinch earlier this year. That was part of the delay in a trial.

Knight says he re-filed the charges against Clinch in order to get a new judge for the case. Knight disagreed with a ruling by Boone County Judge Gene Hamilton that allowed clinch to use the argument of self-defense in order to avoid a murder conviction.

The shooting death happened in the parking lot of the Clark Lane McDonald’s in Columbia in Sept. 2007.

Clinch claims he was protecting his sister's children from Bohannan.