A jury of 10 women and two men has been seated in the trial of a former Illinois prosecutor accused in the Valentine's Day 2006 death of his first wife.
Curtis Lovelace, a former Adams County prosecutor and star University of Illinois football player, has pleaded not guilty in the death of Cory Lovelace.
An initial autopsy on the 38-year-old's body was inconclusive, but subsequent tests of the cremated body and photographic evidence determined the mother of four died from suffocation.
Lovelace's trial is expected to continue into the first week of February.
It is not clear whether the 47-year-old Lovelace, who has been in jail since his arrest, will testify in his own defense. He is not listed among the 10 defense witnesses whose names were submitted to the court in December.
