Jury ready for Browns
The extensive news media coverage surrounding Ed and Elaine Brown’s 2007 Plainfield standoff made for a lengthy jury selection in their weapons and obstruction of justice trial yesterday.
But the court was able to seat a jury. Testimony will begin in the trial today, which is expected to run for at least two weeks.
More than two-thirds of those jurors said they had been exposed to news accounts of the case, and more than 25 jurors were dismissed on the basis of that exposure alone. Six jurors were also dismissed because they said their views on gun control laws were so strong that they could not be impartial in a case involving illegal gun possession.
The Browns are charged with stockpiling weapons, conspiring with supporters and obstructing justice during the nearly nine-month standoff they held with federal agents at their fortified hilltop home while evading capture for tax-related felonies. They are accused of a combined 11 felonies.
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