Opening statements set at neo-Nazi’s murder trial in Phoenix

PHOENIX (AP) — Lawyers are scheduled to make opening statements Monday at the retrial of a neo-Nazi charged with trying to kill a black man and fatally shooting the man’s white girlfriend in 2009 at a Phoenix park.
Travis Ricci is being retried in Kelly Ann Jaeger’s death after his first trial in the killing ended in a mistrial because a witness, in response to a prosecutor’s question, revealed to jurors that Ricci had spent time in prison.
Authorities say Ricci yelled ra