Jury selection begins in Lopez weapons Trial
Jury selection began today in the federal trial of Cuban exile Humberto Lopez, Jr. on charges of illegal possession of military weapons.
Lopez, 33, who lost his left eye and three fingers of his left hand in the explosion of a homemade bomb in Little Havana on March 20, is being tried before U.S. District Court Judge Joe Eaton in connection with his arrest in Hialeah last year.
Firemen and police responding to a blaze at 460 W 42nd Place in June, 1973, discovered a cache of weapons including two M14 rifles, a silencer-equipped submachine gun, a 50-mm cannon, a 60-mm cannon, hand grenades and ammunition was in the house.
Representing Lopez in the federal case is attorney Melvyn Greenspahn. The prosecutor is Assistant U.S. Attorney William Northcutt.