Jury seated in rapper Yella Beezy capital murder trial

A jury has been seated in the murder-for-hire trial involving two Dallas rappers. Yella Beezy, whose real name is Marquise Conway, is facing a capital murder charge and life in prison if convicted of paying to have rapper Moe 3 killed. Opening statements are set to begin tomorrow morning. Fox 4's Stephen Diales spoke with a jury expert who is not involved in the case about the challenges of selecting an impartial jury in such a high-profile trial. Judge made a point to say, it's okay if you've heard about this, but have you formed an opinion already? And some people saying that, yeah, I'm not going to be able to do this. I would assume in your field, that's a normal thing, seeing as a trial just happened a month ago, to hear from some potential jurors saying, yeah, I've already formed an opinion. Yes, that is quite normal. And I have to commend the judge for creating an atmosphere where people felt safe to express what they were really thinking about their own bias in this case. Because there were several jurors who spoke up and admitted they might have a problem due to religious reasons or there were some other reasons mentioned. And that's exactly what you want. You want people to be honest so you can seat the best jury for this particular case. Now, I know you followed the Kiwan White trial with us when that was going on. I would assume that the state is going to use a lot of the same evidence, a lot of the same strategy in getting to this jury. But talk about how it's a totally different jury whenever it gets seated. And so you still have to act as if someone has never heard about this, right? That's right. I mean, in some ways, the defense has kind of an outline of what the prosecution plans to bring forward in this particular case. So they do have that going for them. But, you know, they they it is a very different case. I mean, in this case, you're trying the person who allegedly paid the hit man. And it's a very different situation. I mean, and it's it's a different type of evidence, too. I mean, in the Kiwan White case, there were some very I don't know what I would call gut punch evidence, you know, such as his Tiffany blue underwear. You saw it the day before the murder. You saw the murder take place on I-35 in front of a lot of people, same egg blue underwear, and then burning it the next day. I mean, even if you didn't follow all of the intricate money changing information, you know, and that type of thing, you could see with your own eyes that it was more likely than not that he committed the murder. They don't have that in this case, it's more circumstantial. Jury expert Allison Richardson, thank you so much.