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The jury seating process is expected to continue Tuesday, Los
Angeles County District Attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison said.
She said the trial is expected to last about a week once the
jury is seated and opening statements begin.
Jace has pleaded not guilty to shooting and killing his
40-year-old wife April on May 19, 2014 in their South Los
Angeles home before calling authorities to report an emergency.
The couple's two children, who were both younger than 10, were
home at the time of the shooting and were placed in the care of
relatives, authorities said.
A cellphone expert overrode the lock function of April Jace's
Apple iPhone to help Los Angeles police in the homicide
investigation, court records released earlier this month showed.
Jace's attorney in January argued in court the actor suspected
his wife was having an affair and may have become enraged
moments before the shooting, after seeing something on her
iPhone, according to a report at the time from the New York
Daily News.
Jace, who has appeared mostly in supporting roles on television
in the past 20 years, is best known for portraying police
officer Julien Lowe, a religious Christian who is conflicted
about his sexuality, on the FX cable drama "The Shield" from
2002 to 2008. He also had small parts in the films "Forrest
Gump," "Boogie Nights" and "Planet of the Apes," among others.
April Jace had worked in the financial aid office at Biola
University, an evangelical Christian university southeast of Los
Angeles, for a year before she died.
Jace filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection in 2011.
If convicted, Jace faces a minimum sentence of 50 years and a
maximum life sentence in state prison.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Sharon
Bernstein and Cynthia Osterman)
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