RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - Court officials are beginning the
process of selecting a jury for the resentencing trial of an Alaska
man who helped murder a South Dakota man 11 years ago.
A judge has set aside two weeks for the questioning of potential
jurors in the case of Briley Piper. Prosecutors may call doctors and
other staff from the state prison in Sioux Falls as witnesses.
Piper pleaded guilty to killing 19-year-old Chester Poage (pohg)
near Spearfish in March 2000 and was sentenced to death. The state
Supreme Court later ruled that a jury and not a judge should have
decided Piper's fate and ordered that he be resentenced.
Another man involved in the killing was executed and a third got
life in prison.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
AP-NY-07-05-11 1428EDT
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