Opening statements set in federal cyberstalking trial

(AP) – Opening statements are scheduled in the federal cyberstalking trial of relatives of a man who killed his former daughter-in-law at a Delaware courthouse.
    
Attorneys were to present their statements Thursday morning after a jury is selected.
    
Former optometrist David Matusiewicz; his mother, Lenore Matusiewicz; and his sister, Amy Gonzalez, are charged with conspiracy and stalking of David’s ex-wife, Christine Belford. Belford was fatally shot in 2013 by David’s father, Thomas Matusiewicz, who also killed a friend of Belford and exchanged gunfire with police before killing himself.
    
Prosecutors say David Matusiewicz and his family conspired over several years to torment and stalk his ex-wife with the intent to injure, harass, intimidate and kill her.
    
But Thomas Matusiewicz’s relatives have denied having any knowledge that he intended to kill Belford.