Prospective jurors to tell what they know about Anna Nicole Smith’s death, doctors, boyfriend

Jury questioning next in Anna Nicole Smith case

LOS ANGELES — A judge says questionnaires filled out by prospective jurors in the trial of Anna Nicole Smith’s doctors and her lawyer-boyfriend show most of them know something about the model’s life and death.

But how much they know and what they think about the drug conspiracy charges will be probed in jury questioning in open court. The questioning begins Monday, with Superior Court Judge Robert Perry hoping to have a panel seated in two days.

Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and Howard K. Stern have pleaded not guilty to conspiring to illegally provide the former Playboy model with massive amounts of opiates and sedatives. They are not charged in her overdose death in 2007 in Florida.

In a surprise twist, the prosecutor alleges Smith was a coconspirator in the actions that brought the three to trial.