Langford Trial: Day One

Not much in the way of news outside of the jury being pulled from areas less likely to know the details of the damage:

Larry Langford's federal corruption trial won't include any Birmingham residents. That's because the trial was moved from Birmingham to Tuscaloosa. Langford's attorneys asked U.S. District Judge Scott Coogler to move the trial because they believed pretrial publicity would be detrimental to Langford.

Had the trial remained here, jurors would have been selected from Jefferson, Shelby and Blount counties. Instead, the panel will be pulled from a 10-county district. Moving the trial to Tuscaloosa will increase the likelihood that the panel will include jurors from more rural areas who may not know as much about the case.The case is expected to last two weeks. Here's some information on jury selection, which is expected to begin today.

Two weeks, seems awfully quick, and considering over three witnesses are ready to testify against him it looks to be a tough two weeks at that.