Opening statements for O.J. Simpson’s current trial are to begin Monday in Las Vegas, Nevada. The trial is expected to run about five weeks.

Simpson, 61, faces a dozen charges that derived from his robbing two sports memorabilia dealers in a casino hotel room a year ago. The whole thing eventually led to conspiracy to commit a crime, robbery, assault and kidnapping with a deadly weapon. Simpson and codefendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart, 54, both have pleaded not guilty on all counts. Simpson says he was trying to recover items stolen from him and did not see any weapons.

Because Simpson's 1995 acquittal on murder charges came from a predominantly black jury, it was now decided that an all-white jury will judge O.J. Simpson this time. However two of six alternate jurors are black.

Simpson's lawyers managed to send home those with strong opinions about his 1995 acquittal on murder charges after the so-called "Trial of the Century." Prospective jurors who said Simpson got away with murder have not been accepted. The remaining ones claimed that they didn't care that much about Simpson's trial at that time.

The nine-woman, three-man jury panel is made of computer experts, someone involved in the pharmaceutical business, engineers, a preschool teacher, a food and beverage manager and a bank teller. They have all come to Las Vegas from somewhere else.

Five hundred people began filling out the 27-page questionnaires in August. Nearly 250 were called to the courthouse for additional questioning and only those mentioned above were chosen.