Opening statements will be Wednesday

LEBANON - Now that a jury has been seated in the Ryan Widmer case, jurors will be transported to see the Widmer home - which they saw only in photos in the first trial last year - and then will hear lawyers' opening statements Wednesday.

Jury selection consumed two full days of Widmer's retrial Monday and Tuesday - twice as long as it took during his 2009 trial. The 12 jurors and three alternates were sworn in just after 5 p.m. Tuesday. They were seated with only eight jurors remaining from the original pool of 100.

"I was surprised that they had enough," said Mark Krumbein, a Cincinnati criminal defense lawyer for 27 years who has closely followed the Widmer case.

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Many potential jurors were eliminated because they had formed opinions about the case based on widespread publicity, because of work or family obligations, or for other reasons that went undisclosed.