Bribery trial of northern Indiana sheriff set to begin
Posted April 04, 2017 7:00 am
WARSAW, Ind. (AP) - Attorneys are scheduled to deliver opening statements Wednesday in the bribery trial of a northern Indiana sheriff.
Special Judge Stephen Bowers met with defense and prosecution attorneys Tuesday a day after eight women and four men were selected as jurors to hear the case against Kosciusko County Sheriff Aaron Rovenstine. Two men and one woman were selected as alternate jurors.
Rovenstine was indicted last year on 10 felony counts alleging he accepted $40,000 to allow special privileges for a jail inmate and a visitor. The Republican sheriff also is accused of intimidating a Warsaw police detective suspicious of Rovenstine's activities.
The trial is expected to last about two weeks.
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