Photo by The Associated Press
Scott Cheever is shown in the courtroom on the first day of opening arguments in his capital murder trial in the Greenwood County Courthouse in Eureka, Kan., Friday, Oct. 19, 2007. Cheever, 26, faces seven criminal charges, including capital murder of Greenwood County Sheriff Matt Samuels on Jan 29, 2005. He is also charged with attempted capital murder of four law enforcement officers, manufacturing methamphetamine and criminal possession of a firearm.