State Supreme Court Justice Mark J. Grisanti, who blocked access to jury selection because of what he said was his concern for the privacy of jurors, denied The Buffalo News
Attorneys for Richard A. Metcalf Jr. s estate, Erie County and five deputies will choose six jurors and four alternates for a trial expected to last into March.
Jury selection is scheduled to begin Thursday in a civil trial over the 2012 death of an Erie County Holding Center inmate who a state agency concluded died because of