ALBANY – The Gigi Jordan defense team, which already includes such well-known attorneys as Alan Dershowitz and Ronald Kuby, has brought in veteran civil rights lawyer Norman Siegel as part of a trial team in a long-lingering case that finally could go before a jury by June.

Siegel, the former executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union who formed Siegel, Teitelbaum & Evans two years ago, said the Jordan case will mark the first time he has represented a murder defendant at trial.