Jury selection begins in former senator’s corruption case

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) –  Jury selection will begin in a high profile corruption case involving a former New Mexico senator.
Nearly half of the potential jurors for the case have already been eliminated by lawyers and the judge, days before Phil Griego’s trial is set to start.
According to the Santa Fe New Mexican, the attorney generals office and Griego’s lawyer agreed last Tuesday to excuse dozens of members of the jury pool.
Those reasons include health