Selection of an anonymous jury is to begin today in the trial of14 El Rukn ambassadors accused of using murder and intimidation to"systematically eliminate" competition to a profitable drug trade.
Prosecutors had asked that jurors be referred to only by numberto preclude any possibility of jury tampering.
During the last El Rukn federal trial here in 1977, four jurorsreceived threatening anonymous phone calls at their homes, accordingto motions filed by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Theodore Poulos, MichaelPace and Victoria Peters.
In that case, Rukn leader Jeff Fort and others were convicted ofconspiring to commit …
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