Tyson Jury Selection Finished : Trial: Group of 12 is composed of two black men, a black woman, three white women and six white men.

Jury selection was completed Wednesday and opening presentations will be heard today in the rape trial of Mike Tyson.

Tyson, the former heavyweight boxing champion, is charged with four rape-related counts. If found guilty on all four, he could face a prison term of 63 years.

He will be judged by 12 people, a jury that includes two black men, a black woman, three white women and six white men. The jury was sequestered late Wednesday and will be sworn in this morning.

The jury will vote separately on all four counts. On each count, Tyson needs 12 not guilty votes for acquittal. If the jury is not unanimous in its verdict, the result would be a hung jury.

At that point, the prosecutor could ask for a retrial or drop the case.

The trial’s prime topic outside the courtroom Wednesday, a video of Tyson and his personal aide, John Horne, conversing at a Sept. 10 news conference after Tyson’s arraignment, was rendered moot when the Marion County prosecutors withdrew it as evidence late Wednesday.

The video reportedly shows Tyson turning to Horne and making disparaging remarks about his accuser.

The station that produced the tape, WISH of Indianapolis, never aired it on advice of counsel, and it was turned over to the Marion County prosecutor’s office.

“I’ve listened to it many times, and I would be less than honest if I told you it was fully intelligible,” WISH attorney Dan Byron said.

Tyson’s attorney, Vincent Fuller, challenged the introduction of the video as evidence in a sealed motion. But it wasn’t clear Wednesday if Judge Patricia J. Gifford had ruled on the matter. The explanation that the prosecution had “withdrawn it as evidence” came from the court clerk.

Fuller also requested that clothing worn by the 18-year-old Rhode Island woman who said Tyson raped her July 19 not be admitted as evidence. Fuller claimed the clothing had been altered by Indianapolis police investigators. Gifford denied his motion.

The prosecution lost a motion when Gifford ruled that Jose Torres, former light-heavyweight champion and onetime friend of Tyson’s, could not be called as a witness. Torres wrote a book on Tyson and quoted Tyson as saying he enjoyed having sex with women because he liked to “hear them scream with pain. . . .”

Torres also quoted Tyson in the book saying that “the best punch I ever threw in my life” was one that landed on the face of his ex-wife, Robin Givens.

Gifford, who issued rulings on several sealed motions from her chambers after closing the court at 4:30 p.m., also ruled she would “take under advisement” motions related to charges of Tyson’s sexual misbehavior at a beauty pageant at the Indiana Black Expo last July in Indianapolis.

The 12th juror, a 47-year-old white man who is an offset printer, was chosen early Wednesday.

The three alternates were not selected until 3:30 p.m. At that point, Gifford ended almost three days of jury selection by saying: “We will proceed with three alternates.” Earlier, she had said four alternate jurors would be selected.

Tyson left at 4 p.m. and was cheered by some spectators in the courthouse lobby. He had a guest in the courtroom in the morning session, his “mother figure” from Catskill, N.Y., Camille Ewald.

Ewald owned the home where Tyson’s late guardian, Cus D’Amato, lived and where he brought Tyson to live in the early 1980s. In Catskill, in a gym above the city’s police department, D’Amato taught Tyson how to box.

Ewald arrived for the morning session with Tyson and sat in the spectator session between Tyson’s personal aides, Horne and Rory Holloway. Just before the session began, Tyson spoke quietly with her and held her hand.

The three alternate jurors, all white, included a 44-year-old man who works for Indiana Bell; a man, 24, who is a sales manager, and a woman, 52, who is a sales representative.

Tyson, who appears to weigh far more than his 220-pound fighting weight, continues to do morning roadwork, according to Horne, and will begin nighttime gym work soon.