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

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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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