Selenski trial looms, decade after bodies found in Pa. yard
Posted: January 6, 2015 - 4:03am

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) -- A judge has postponed jury selection in the trial of a man charged with killing a drug-dealing pharmacist and the pharmacist's girlfriend. The victim's bodies were found more than a decade ago in Hugo Selenski's backyard in northeastern Pennsylvania. Selenski's capital trial was scheduled to start Monday in Wilkes-Barre. But the judge ordered potential jurors to come back Wednesday so he could deal with pre-trial issues. Luzerne County Judge Fred Pierantoni then issued a ruling that will allow testimony from a dead witness to be read in court. Monday's proceedings are the closest the 41-year-old Selenski has come to being tried for the deaths of Michael Kerkowski and Tammy Fassett. A jury acquitted Selenski in 2006 in the slayings of two other drug dealers found buried in the yard.