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PITTSBURGH (AP) — The trial of a Pittsburgh medical researcher charged with fatally poisoning his neurologist wife with cyanide has been delayed.
The murder trial of 65-year-old Dr. Robert Ferrante was to have begun with jury selection on Sept. 22.
But at a pretrial hearing Wednesday, Allegheny County Judge Jeffrey Manning postponed jury selection until Oct. 14 after attorneys for both sides complained they hadn't received all of the evidence each is entitled to from the other side. That pretrial exchange is known as discovery.
Manning says testimony will begin Oct. 16.
Ferrante is charged with lacing an energy drink with poison to kill his wife, Dr. Autumn Klein, in April 2013.
Ferrante has repeatedly denied that and has said he's devastated by her sudden death.
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