BRUNSWICK, Ga. - The trial of a physician accused of plotting the murder of his estranged wife was delayed Wednesday. <br>
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Carl M. Drury, 62, was to stand trial beginning Monday on charges that he solicited a hit man to shoot and kill his wife, Mary Valoze, last summer. The alleged hit man was an undercover federal agent, and the woman was not harmed. <br>
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U.S. District Judge Dudley H. Bowen Jr. granted the defense's motion for a delay because of the holidays. A new trial date was not set. <br>
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In another order, Bowen denied a request by prosecutors that the pool of potential jurors be drawn from the entire 43-county Southern District. <br>
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Prosecutors argued that extensive publicity in the case made it unlikely that an impartial jury could be selected from the Brunswick Division of seven southeast Georgia counties. Bowen said the government failed to demonstrate bias against Drury. <br>
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If convicted, Drury faces up to 40 years on four charges of using a telephone in arranging a murder for hire and five years on a handgun charge for allegedly furnishing the weapon to be used in the killing. <br>
