Nearly a year after O.J. Simpson walked into a Las Vegas hotel room intent on reclaiming some sports memorabilia, lawyers in his robbery-kidnapping trial are ready to begin picking a jury.
The jury selection scheduled to begin today is expected to take a week or longer.
Simpson and co-defendant Clarence Stewart have pleaded not guilty to 12 charges stemming from a heated encounter with two sports collectibles dealers.
Charges include burglary, coercion and assault with a deadly weapon.
Once jurors are seated, the prosecution will tell them Simpson and Stewart walked into the casino hotel room with four other men and robbed the sports collectibles peddlers at gunpoint.
The four men allegedly involved in the incident have pleaded to lesser charges and agreed to testify for the prosecution.
Simpson maintains he was trying to recover things stolen from him.
He says he didn't ask anyone to bring guns and didn't know anyone in the room had one.
A conviction could put him away for life.
