By JESSICA ROBERTSON The Associated Press Tuesday, March 27, 2007; 4:41 PM
NASSAU, Bahamas -- An inquest into the death of Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son, who died in September while visiting her after she gave birth in a Bahamas hospital, stalled Tuesday before a court could even pick a jury.
Soon after the court convened, spectators and reporters were ordered to leave when Wayne Munroe, a lawyer for the estate of the former Playboy Playmate, asked the judge to consider a motion that "relates to the impaneling of a jury to act on this inquiry."
Munroe and other attorneys declined to comment upon leaving court, saying Bahamian legal rules prohibited them from discussing a closed session.
Later, Bernard Turner, director of public prosecutions, said the court would take at least another day to resolve the issue raised by Munroe and the inquest would not resume before Thursday. Jurors were excused until then.