CLEVELAND (AP) — Jury selection has begun for an Ohio doctor charged in the 2005 cyanide poisoning of his wife.
The judge in the Cleveland trial of 41-year-old Yazeed Essa (EE’-sah) warned prospective jurors on Tuesday that the case could last up to seven weeks.
Essa has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder.
Prosecutors say Essa gave his 38-year-old wife, a former nurse, a capsule containing cyanide that she thought it was a calcium pill. After taking the capsule, the sport utility vehicle she was driving crashed and she was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Essa left the country after his wife’s death and was arrested in 2006 in Cyprus. He gave up a long extradition fight and was returned to Ohio last year.
