Highlights from Investigative Voice’s coverage of pretrial deliberations, as three men go on trial for the 2008 killing of Baltimore City Councilmember Kenneth H. Harris.

“You look at my face when you’re talking to me!” Circuit Court Judge David Ross said yesterday to Assistant State’s Attorney Cynthia M. Banks, who was reading from a notepad when she invoked the judge’s ire.

At another point, witness Germyn Murray explained how he was able to identify one of the defendants in a surveillance video. Murray described the man’s walk as “slugh-footed.”

(Slugh? Slug? Not clear why I-V spelled it that way. )

Jury selection was set to get under way today in the case.

Charles McGaney, 22, Gary Collins, 22, and Jerome Williams, 17, face charges of first-degree murder, first-degree assault and several robbery and weapons counts in connection with the death of Harris outside the New Haven Lounge jazz club on Sept. 20, 2008.

Police say Harris was shot when he tried to flee from the defendants who were allegedly trying to rob him outside the northeast Baltimore club.

Prosecutors argued successfully against the suppression of DNA and other evidence that defense lawyers claimed was prejudicial.

I-V describes Murray as one of several witnesses who say they were threatened in the case. The website promises not to identify another person on the witness list — the woman who was in the car with Harris on the night he was shot – “out of concern for the woman’s safety.”