Jury Selection Begins In Great White Trial

Jury selection began on Tuesday in the trial of a nightclub owner in Rhode Island over an incident which saw pyrotechnics go awry during a Great White show, killing 100 fans in 2003.

Station nightclub owner Michael Derderian faces 200 counts of involuntary manslaughter - two counts for each person who died.

The trial is expected to last several months and will be followed by a trial for his brother, Jeffrey.

Lawyers will spend the next several weeks picking 12 jurors and four alternates from a pool of roughly 500 people.

Potential jurors will be screened over the next few days and will be asked to fill out a 32-page questionnaire.

Lawyers will then spend approximately a week reviewing their answers before deciding who should be dismissed.