Jury selection will begin in the case of a Miami woman accused of bludgeoning her husband to death last March.
Despite the intense publicity surrounding the case, Lisa Monroe's defense attorneys failed in attempts to have the trial transferred from Miami.
Monroe, 35, a former legal secretary, is charged with murdering her husband, prominent local attorney and philanthropist Walker James Monroe, last March. Monroe plans to claim a battered-spouse-syndrome defense at trial. Her son, Michael Daye, now 17, has been missing since shortly before the alleged homicide took place.