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| Jury selection a slow process |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 11/10/2008 |
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TENNESSEE - Jury selection has a slow beginning in Kingston where Rocky Joe Houston is being tried in the murders of a Roane County deputy and his ride-along friend. The Knoxville News Sentinel reported only some of the 600 potential jurors showed up at the courthouse on Monday. Defense lawyer Randy Rogers put Circuit Court Clerk Angela Rogers on the witness stand to explain how she chose the panel for jury duty. She said names are culled at random from a driver's license database. The 49-year-old Houston and his 47-year-old brother Leon Houston are accused of fatally shooting Roane County Deputy William Birl Jones and former police officer Gerald Michael Brown to death as Jones tried to serve a warrant in May 2006. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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