Prosecutors and defense lawyers resumed Wednesday the process of selecting a jury that would decide whether O.J. Simpson and a friend of his (the last co-defendant of 5) robbed two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas casino hotel room last year.

After questioning during the past two days, 20 more people were dismissed. No jurors in the case of the fallen NFL star have been selected yet. Twelve potential jurors have made it past questioning from both prosecutors and attorneys and were included in the final pool of 40 from which 22 will be dismissed by the prosecution and the defense attorneys.

There are already discussions regarding race in O.J. Simpson’s trial. The attorney of the former NFL star’s co-defendant Clarence "C.J" Stewart has been trying to convince the judge that he must find and seat more black jurors so that the jury would fairly represent the county’s population as far as the black population is concerned.

The potential jurors had to answer questions about the celebrity of the 61-year-old former NFL player, his discharge in the 1994 killings of his ex-wife and her friend and about the racial composition of the jury.

Both defendants face 12 charges including felony kidnapping, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. The scene happened on September 13, 2007, when O.J. Simpson and five other men stormed in a casino hotel room and allegedly robbed two memorabilia collectors of some items Mr. Simpson claimed belonged to him. Two of the men who accompanied Simpson that night in the hotel room were armed.

If he’s found guilty of all charges, Mr. Simpson could be sentenced to life in prison.