Jury selection ends in 2009 murder trial
YOUNGSTOWN — Jury selection was completed Monday for the trial of Paul Brown for the May 2009 murder of 17-year-old Ashten Jackson.
The jury viewed a crime scene related to the case on Wardle Avenue on the city’s East Side late today and is scheduled to hear opening statements from prosecution and defense lawyers at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
It was the beginning of yet another chapter in the convoluted six-year history of the case, which is before Judge Maureen A. Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.
The prosecution contends Brown, 37, of Falls Avenue, and another man picked up Jackson on the night of May 25, 2009, hoping Jackson would help Brown commit a robbery.
Police arrested Brown on a weapons charge shortly after Jackson went missing.
The gun he was carrying is the one Jackson had taken from his residence on May 25, 2009, prosecutors say.
Jackson, who had been shot four times, was found dead in a field on the city’s East Side on May 30, 2009.
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