A full day of screening potential jurors for the trial of accused U.S. embassy bomber Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani yesterday resulted in 72 people being chosen to return Monday for the final stage of jury selection. Southern District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who spent the day questioning more than 100 citizens on their ability to be impartial and whether or not their service in a terrorism trial would result in a hardship, said he was satisfied the number was enough to seat a jury. Both sides will exercise their peremptory challenges on Monday in the process of seating 12 jurors and six alternates, who will serve for a trial they were told would last 10 to 16 weeks. – Mark Hamblett
Simpson Thacher Partner Joins Justice Department
Litigator Joseph F. Wayland, a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, has been tapped as deputy assistant attorney general for civil enforcement in the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
