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US piracy trial begins in Norfolk
Jury selection continues
Updated: Wednesday, 10 Nov 2010, 7:45 AM EST
Published : Tuesday, 09 Nov 2010, 6:27 AM EST
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - Jury selection continues Wednesday in the Virginia piracy trial of five Somali defendants accused of attacking a U.S. Navy ship off the coast of Africa.
Legal scholars say this is the first piracy prosecution to go to trial in the U.S. since the Civil War.
The trial opened Tuesday with the start of jury selection, which was scheduled to resume Wednesday morning.
U.S. District Judge Mark S. Davis is presiding over the trial in Norfolk. If convicted of the piracy charge, the five Somali nationals face mandatory life terms.
The defendants are accused in the April attack on the USS Nicholas, which was part of an international flotilla combating piracy in the seas off Somalia.
The process to chose 12 jurors and two alternates from a pool of 74 will continue Wednesday morning. Judge Davis expects the trial to last three weeks.
According to court filings, the government is expected to call as an expert witness the chief of the counter-piracy branch of the Office of Naval Intelligence.
Legal scholars say this is the first piracy prosecution to go to trial in the U.S. since the Civil War.
The defendants are using interpreters in the proceedings due to the language barrier.
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