Jury selection coverage starts Thursday morning
Federal district court in Missoula will be packed Thursday morning as jury selection begins in the prosecution of W.R. Grace & Co. and five high level former employees and executives. Eighty potential jurors from Western Montana will be in the courtroom. They were chosen from a list of thousands, then winnowed using an extensive questionnaire to a list of 300. The final 80 candidates were selected at random.
Judge Donald Molloy will lead the questioning, having reviewed questions submitted earlier by attorneys for the defense and the U.S. government.
University of Montana students from the schools of law and journalism will be in court as long as court is in session. They will follow details of jury selection using both Twitter and this blog space. Twitter posts, which are tiny blog bursts, appear at the bottom right of this blog shortly after they are posted. They are limited to 140 characters. You can join Twitter to follow that coverage on your computer or phone.
You will be able to tell which perspective blog posts represent by the icon posted at the lead. Law school students will be represented with the scales of justice, 
, journalism students by an inkwell .
The Grace Case team looks forward to bringing its readers accurate, timely and accessible coverage of the trial and the evidenciary and other legal issues likely to arise. We look forward to getting to know our readers through the comment section of the blog posts.
– Nadia White and Andrew King-Ries
Posted: February 18th, 2009 under General.
Tags: jury selection, Molloy, Voir Dire
Comment from Mike Crill Missoula,Mt
Time February 18, 2009 at 10:37 pm
Greetings Will and Team. Just heard wr grace wants to go somewhere else and Molloy said no.Now that is the right anwser I/we want to hear. I believe it is time for WR Grace to stop running the show on who/what and where not to mention us victims that don’t exist. We will exist and we will be heard and we will hold all responsible accountable to the highest laws of the land allowable.Shame they did away with firing squads or the rope.These days it’s called a deferred sentence/plea bargin. No bargining here.It is time to pay up and I sure hope together, this will be a reality and history will tell this story many many times.This is why we have to get this right because millions are victims and deserve justice also.I would love to meet with all of you and allow me to rattle for a few hours and I promise to keep you all entertained with disbelief and I know what CAN become of what we/you do WILL make a world a difference for the world and those we leave behind.Imagine… we shall keep in touch for sure.Pick a time and date to meet with all of you.We can talk about my DVD also.Thank you and God Bless. I believe…