by Theresa Freed

The first day of jury selection got underway with approximately 150 potential jurors assembling at the Los Angeles County courthouse, Van Nuys.

At 2 p.m. they listened to a brief presentation from Judge Wayne Ellison. He described the amount of time jurors can expect to spend listening to the case.

The following is a list of witnesses who could testify at the trial.
Will Anderson
Tom Avakian
Harasheed Balbir
Alan Barbour
Tami Belshay
Jessica Bickam
Joseph Boatwright
Megan Boatwright
Allen Boudreau
Rene Castaneda
George Contreras
Rena Counsellor
Matthew Crowder
Valerie Curran-Priest
Christie Davis
Deborah Davis
Leslie Dobbs-Fichera
Peter Dorahaufer
Timothy Erickson
S. Miles Estner
Jared Fichera
Patrick Fitzpatrik
Charles Foreman
Lisa Gamoian
Debi Garvin
Dr. Venu Gopal
Tom Harris
Keith Harlik
Dr. Paul Herrmann
Becky Holland
Indai Ivans
Charles Jiminez
Phil Jones
Anantdeep Kang
Joe King
Larry Kirkhart
Jim Koch
Brian Lang
William Lehman
Scott Lewis
Karen Lindquist
Terri Lopez
Rudy Lucio
Melissa Mathis
Leslie Mayer
Matt McFadden
Roy Miller
Zachary Miller
Gina Millis
Ellen Moezpoor
Scott Monteiro
Eydeann Notaro
Kim Plumlee
Paul Quinn
Brent Reed
Afshin Salehi
Shirly Schuster
Rory Smith
Robert E. Solis
Keith Sparrow
Mina Spears
Peter Spears
Dave Stafford
Judith Stewart
David Sullivan
John Taddie
Mare Scott Taylor
Allan Thompson
James Glenn Thorburgh
Victor Uribe
Raymond Valenzuela
Judy Van Gorkum
John Weaver
Vince Weibert
Roger Wetnight
Bob Williams
Mike Williams
John Willow
Kenton Wong
Ellen Woods
Nancy Wright
Tony Yang
R. Zuniga

The following is a list of questions the potential jurors are answering today.

1. Is English your native language?

2. If your answer is no, please state what your native language and answer the following. Are you sometimes unable to understand others when they speak English, or are others sometimes unable to understand you when you speak English?

3. Year and place of birth.

4. Where did you grow up?

5. Describe the area of Los Angeles county in which you currently live. Number of years you have lived at that address.

6. If you have lived in the County for less than ten years, describe the other areas in which you have lived in the past ten years.

7. Describe your occupation in the past ten years.

8. Marital status. How many times have you been married. How long.

9. Describe your spouse's or former spouse's or significant other's present occupation.

10. Please list the age, sex, occupation, or area of study of each of your children.

11. If anyone else is living in your home with you, state their relationship to you, their age, gender, occupation, or former occupation, or if a student, their area of study.

12. What is your highest level of education.

13. Are you currently attending school.

14. Please list all degrees, certificates, licenses, and major areas in which you have studied, providing, the dates and institutions involved.

15. Do you have any future educational plans. If yes, what are they?

16. Please list any clubs, civic groups, religious organizations or volunteer work that you are involved in and any leisure time activities and interests you have.

17. Specific volunteer work.

18. Do you know, or are you in any way acquainted with any of the attorneys who have been introduced today, the defendant, Larissa Schuster or her family, the alleged victim Timothy Schuster, any persons whose names are on those lists?

19. If you answered yes, please identify the person you are acquainted with and explain how you know that person, how long you have known them, and your relationship.

20. Have you read or heard anything about this case, or the circumstances of the alleged murder, whether through the media or otherwise?

21. If you answered yes, identify the source.

22. Is this a case or story that you particularly followed in the media.

23. Please describe in detail what you recall hearing or reading about this case from the news media or any other sources, describing each source separately.

24. Do you remember any comments on the case made by anyone directly involved in the case, such as attorneys, parties, or the witnesses. If yes, what do you remember?

25. Have you formed any opinions about this case as a result of what you have heard or read. If yes, what opinions did you form?

26. Have you formed any opinion about this case, as a result of what you have heard or read, whether the defendant Larissa Schuster is guilty of murder? If yes, what opinion did you form?

27. If you answered yes to either of the two previous questions, using the scale below, how would you describe those opinions?Strongly held, not likely to change; strong held, but open to change; just an impression, open to c change; insert your own description.

28. If you are selected as a juror in this case, you will be required to follow the law and to decide the case based only on the evidence, and not based on something you may have heard about the case outside of the court, or heard or read in the media. Recognizing that everyone charged with a crime is entitled to have a trial based only on the evidence, do you honestly believe that you can set aside any information you may have heard or read about the case, and any opinions you may have formed, and decide the case based only on the evidence and the law as the Court will instruct you? If your answer to this question is anything other than a definite yes, please explain your response below.

29. During the trial, there may well be media coverage here in the L.A. area about the case. As the Court has already instructed you, you are required, as a juror, not to listen to or read any media accounts of the case, not to talk about the case with anyone and not to allow anything that happens outside of the courtroom to affect your decision on the case. Do you honestly believe you will be able to comply with those instructions? If your answer to this question is anything other than a definite yes, please explain your response below.

30. During the trial you will likely see photographs of the victim's remains. Would the prospect of having to view such photographs so disturb or upset you that you believe you could not serve as a juror, or that viewing such photos might interfere with your ability to consider the other evidence or to give either party a fair trial? If your answer to this question is anything other than a definite no, please explain your response below.

31. Understand that jury service is an honor as well as a duty, is there any reason whatever you can think of, that you could not be a fair impartial juror for both tee prosecution and the defense in this case, or any reason you could not fairly decide this case based only on the evidence presented and the law as the Court will instruct. If your answer to this question is anything other than a definite no, please explain in detail why you believe you cannot be fair.