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Seattle Murder Trial Begins With Selection of Jurors

Background on trial and jury selection.

Eight men, four women picked for jury in Wah Mee murder trial

Describes the chosen jurors for Benjamin Ng's trial, their jobs, and hobbies.

Wah Mee Murder Murder Victim's families face the future

Victims' families and their process to claim government benefits as survivors is stalled by possibility that victims may have been engaged in illegal activity of gambling when they died. Victims' relatives are interviewed about their feelings.

Wah Mee lawyers want jury isolated

Discusses length of trial and possiblity of sequestering jury during trial.

Chinatown trial zeros in on ideal jury

Defense and prosecution discuss ideal juror candidates.

Potential jurors told of Wah Mee carnage

Article describes jury selection process and how potential jurors react to gruesome evidence.

Potential jurors suffer own trials over life, death

Potential jurors discuss ability to convict and sentence a person to death.

For the defense...for the prosecution

Defense and prosecution lawyers question potential jurors about death penalty. John Henry Browne, Benjamin Ng's attorney says he took the case because he is "absolutely opposed to the death penalty."

Chinatown Trial: Jurors Advised of 'Gruesome," "Chilling" Evidence

Further discussion of jury selection process and the role that potential jury members' beleifs on the dealth penality are playing in choosing the jury.

Jury selection begins for first Wah Mee trial

Article reports on jury selection, and potential other crimes that Ng and Mak may have committed.