Jurors Impaneled in ‘Cotton Club’ Drug Case
A jury was impaneled in Los Angeles on Thursday in the trial of a reputed cocaine dealer and three alleged hit men charged with murdering a New York producer in a dispute over financing of the movie “The Cotton Club.”
The Superior Court jury of nine women and three men as well as six alternate jurors, all women, was selected over a month’s time. Opening statements in the trial are scheduled for Oct. 31. Final pretrial motions will be argued until then.
On trial are a reputed major West Coast cocaine dealer, Karen De Layne Greenberger, 42, formerly of Sherman Oaks, and three former bodyguards for Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt: Alex Marti, 29, of Sherman Oaks, William Mentzer, 39, of Canoga Park, and Robert Ulmer Lowe, 44, of Rockville, Md.
Prosecutors allege that Greenberger hired the reputed hit men to kill New York theatrical producer Roy Radin, 33, whose decayed and bullet-riddled body was found in June, 1983, in rural Gorman.
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