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del.icio.usBrooks murder trial set to start next week
BY RON SYLVESTER
The Wichita Eagle
Ted Burnett's capital murder trial will go on next week in Wichita as planned.
Sedgwick County District Judge Ben Burgess denied a request to move the trial to another county Monday morning.
A pool of some 500 jurors have been summoned for the trial. Lawyers are scheduled to begin questioning potential jurors May 5.
Burnett has contended he's not guilty of strangling Chelsea Brooks, a 14-year-old who was nine months pregnant when she disappeared from a Wichita skating rink in June 2006.
Prosecutors say Burnett killed Brooks, after being hired by Elgin Robinson, the purported father of the unborn child. Robinson faces trial in September.
