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Federal prosecutors are set to begin building their case against two men described as leaders of a 2020 scheme to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, their second chance to get convictions after a jury couldn't deliver a unanimous verdict last spring.

A previous jury failed to reach agreement on the charges against Adam Fox and Barry Croft in April.

A jury was selected Tuesday for the second trial of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

Jurors in the first trial couldn't reach a verdict on kidnapping charges against Adam Fox and Barry Croft.

Federal prosecutors are set to begin building their case against two men described as leaders of a 2020 scheme to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, their second chance to get convictions after a jury couldn't deliver a unanimous verdict last spring.

Federal prosecutors are set to begin building their case against two men described as leaders of a 2020 scheme to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

Ten women and eight men were picked for the jury in the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping retrial, including two Black women and a Hispanic male.

A jury was selected Tuesday for the second Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot trial, with opening statements planned for Wednesday.

Prosecutors say the men were smart enough to research and formulate a plan to kidnap and execute the governor, but defense attorneys argue they were full of empty talk and were pushed into it by undercover FBI agents.

Federal prosecutors are set to begin building their case against two men described as leaders of a 2020 scheme to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, their second chance to get convictions after a jury couldn't deliver a unanimous verdict last spring.