Trial to start this morning

At the Oconee Courthouse, a jury has been selected in the case of Shane Adam Burdette, charged with murder. The Westminster area man is accused in the shooting death in the summer of 2013 at 108 Mount Pleasant Road of 21-year old James Evan Tyner. Yesterday Judge Cordell Maddox ruled investigators had given Burdette proper readings of his rights to remain silent and have an attorney present before he made two of three written statements.