A lawyer for a Chinese family attending the trial of an ex-University of Illinois student charged with killing their daughter says he’s explaining to them how the American justice system works.
Wednesday is the third day of jury selection at Brendt Christensen's federal death-penalty trial in Peoria. A jury will begin hearing evidence in the slaying of Yingying Zhang next week.
Zhang's parents and brother were in Peoria Monday. Yesterday and today they watched a remote video feed at an Urbana courthouse. Attorney Steve Beckett says he’s trying to help the family "understand why things are happening."
The case has garnered enormous interest in China and among thousands of Chinese students in the U.S.
