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Beacon First: Jury selection begins in trial of Craigslist murder suspect

By Ed Meyer
Beacon Journal staff writer

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Richard J. Beasley, accused perpetrator in the Craigslist killings, is wheeled into Judge Lynne S. Callahan's Summit County Common Pleas, for the jury pool selection process on Tuesday. (Phil Masturzo /Akron Beacon Journal)

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The capital-murder trial of Richard James Beasley, suspect in the 2011 Craigs­list killings, began with jury selection Tuesday morning in a rare setting: the Akron Civic Theatre.

Summit County Common Pleas Judge Lynne S. Callahan, who is handling the trial, addressed some 200 prospective jurors from a podium erected in the center of the downtown theater’s stage.

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