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Published June 23, 2011, 12:00 AM

Michael Richard Swanson sits with his lawyers


Michael Richard Swanson, center, sits with his lawyers Monday June 20, 2011, during jury selection at the Carroll County Courthouse in Carroll Iowa. Swanson, 18, of St. Louis Park, Minn., is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and first-degree robbery in the Nov. 15, 2010, shooting deaths of store clerks in Algona and Humboldt, Iowa. (AP Photo/Rodney White/The Des Moines Register)
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