Prosecutors claim Jose Ibarra, 26, attacked the Augusta University nursing student, hitting her head and asphyxiating her with the plan to sexually assault her.

A trial is set to get underway for a man accused of killing a Georgia nursing student earlier this year, in a case that fanned the immigration debate in the last election cycle.

The judge who will decide the fate of an undocumented migrant accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley is a no-nonsense, silvery-white-haired jurist whose father was killed in an armed robbery.

Jose Ibarra, the suspect in the slaying of Laken Riley, has agreed to a trial before a judge, ending a jury trial scheduled to begin Wednesday.

The defendant, Jose Ibarra, was charged in the killing of Laken Riley, whose body was found on the University of Georgia campus earlier this year.

The defendant’s decision this week to waive his right to a jury could be because ‘the facts are so outrageous that they don't want the jury to rush to