ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, OCT. 23, 2011 AND THEREAFTER - This photo released July 27, 2011, by the Iowa Department of Public Safety shows Tracey Ann Richter-Roberts. In 2001, Roberts fired 9 shots from two guns into Dustin Wehde, a 20-year-old neighbor who died on the floor of her bedroom. A jury will be asked to decide if she was a heroic mother who used self-defense to protect herself and her three young children from Wehde and another man who she says invaded the home, or was she a master manipulator who planned the killing and an elaborate cover story. (AP Photo/Iowa Department of Public Safety)
ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, OCT. 23, 2011 AND THEREAFTER - This photo released July 27, 2011, by the Iowa Department of Public Safety shows Tracey Ann Richter-Roberts. In 2001, Roberts fired 9 shots from two guns into Dustin Wehde, a 20-year-old neighbor who died on the floor of her bedroom. A jury will be asked to decide if she was a heroic mother who used self-defense to protect herself and her three young children from Wehde and another man who she says invaded the home, or was she a master manipulator who planned the killing and an elaborate cover story. (AP Photo/Iowa Department of Public Safety)
FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) ? Attorneys have begun whittling down the pool of potential jurors in the trial of a woman accused of murdering a man as part of a plot to frame her first husband.
Prosecutors and attorneys for Tracy Richter picked 32 of the 100 possible jurors to begin questioning Tuesday at the outset of her trial.
Richter says she fatally shot 20-year-old Dustin Wehde in 2001 after he and another man broke into her former Iowa home and assaulted her.
Prosecutors contend that Richter killed Wehde and planted a notebook in his car meant to implicate her first husband in a murder-for-hire plot.
She has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and would face a mandatory life prison term if convicted.
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