Jury Selection Begins In Former Sheriff’s Extortion Trial

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Jury selection was scheduled to begin Tuesday in the extortion trial of former El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa.
Maketa was indicted a year ago for reportedly threatening to terminate a $5.3 million contract with the jail’s health provider if it did not fire an employee who refused to support then-Undersheriff Paula Presley’s candidacy to succeed Maketa.
Terry Maketa (credit: CBS)
Prosecutors also allege Maketa and others coerced a woman involv