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Jury Selection Begins in Rogue Cops Case

The entrance to the federal court house in downtown Tulsa.
KWGS News Photo
The entrance to the federal court house in downtown Tulsa.

By KWGS News

Tulsa, OK – Jury Selection got underway in the federal trial of two Tulsa Police officers indicted for being on the wrong side of the law.

Prosecutors had originally asked for a 30-day delay in the trials of Jeff Henderson and Bill Yelton. However, the motion to delay the case while the prosecution reviewed some 500-pages of discovery was withdrawn just before the scheduled start of the jury selection.

The officers are accused of lying, witness tampering and civil rights violations. As a result of the federal probe over three dozen court cases have been dismissed as suspects in other crimes.