Hundreds of reporters from Canada, Britain, continental Europe and the U.S. began arriving in Chicago on Tuesday for the opening of the trial of former media magnate Conrad Black on Wednesday morning.
Conrad Black, shown in September 2006 media scrum, says in a recent article that he’s confident he’ll be cleared of criminal charges.
(Photo Credit: Canadian Press)The case of the United States versus Black will get underway in Everett M. Dirksen federal courthouse with jury selection. Twelve jurors will be selected from a pool of candidates who have already filled out a lengthy questionnaire.
Opening arguments aren’t expected until Friday or the following Monday.
Black goes into the trial publicly exuding confidence that he will be cleared of all charges.
“As I know the facts and believe in the fairness of 12 randomly selected Americans, I am confident of the outcome,” he wrote in a piece that appeared last weekend in the National Post — a newspaper he founded.
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