Last updated: Wednesday, September 6, 2006
JURY SELECTION BEGINS IN GREAT WHITE TRIAL
LATEST: Jury selection began on Tuesday (05SEP06) in the trial of a nightclub owner in Rhode Island over an incident which saw pyrotechnics go awry during a GREAT WHITE show, killing 100 fans in 2003.
Station nightclub owner MICHAEL DERDERIAN faces 200 counts of involuntary manslaughter - two counts for each person who died.
The trial is expected to last several months and will be followed by a trial for his brother, JEFFREY.
Lawyers will spend the next several weeks picking 12 jurors and four alternates from a pool of roughly 500 people.
Potential jurors will been screened over the next few days and will be asked to fill out a 32-page questionnaire.
Lawyers will then spend approximately a week reviewing their answers before deciding who should be dismissed.
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