Jury selection begins today.
About 175 potential jurors reported today for the murder trial of a second white supremacist accused in the gruesome dragging death of a black man last year. Lawrence Russell Brewer is charged with murder in the death of James Byrd Jr. Lawyers will spend two weeks whittling the group to 12. Testimony is set to begin Sept. 15 and should take about three weeks. Co-defendant John William King was convicted in Jasper last February and sentenced to death. Shawn Allen Berry is to be tried later.