Larry Harrison's second legal battle began yesterday at the Washtenaw County Circuit Court as a new jury convened to try him on a felony charge of sexual delinquency.

The charge stems from a series of events that took place around Central Campus from August to December of last year. Last week, Harrison was convicted of indecent exposure, - a misdemeanor - for a related incident that occurred on the 1300 block of Minerva Street last December. Sentencing hasn't taken place yet.

Assistant Washtenaw County Prosecutor Blaine Longsworth cited Harrison's "highly unusual and rare criminal behavior" as the basis for the felony charge.

Judge Archie Brown is presiding over the trial, which is being heard by a jury selected yesterday morning.

Jury selection took more than four hours for the trial that is expected to end Thursday or Friday. The defense raised most of the objections against potential jurors before the 14-person jury was finally seated. The jury consists of eight women and six men.

If convicted, Harrison - a former Michigan defensive tackle - could be sentenced to anywhere from one day to life in prison.

Anthony Chambers, Harrison's defense attorney, requested that evidence from an episode that occurred on the 700 block of South Division Street be omitted because it happened after the Minerva Street crime. The original charge concerned Harrison's behavior from August 2004 through the Minerva Street incident, which happened around 8:30 p.m. on Dec. 6, 2004.

But Brown denied Chambers's request because the Division Street incident took place just after midnight on Dec. 7, only four hours after the event on Minerva Street.

Longsworth called the prosecution's first witness when the court returned from recess yesterday afternoon. University Nursing student Erin Sorenson, who lived on the 1300 block of Minerva Street at the time of the incident, described the events of that night. She maintained her earlier testimony that she could not positively identify Harrison as the man she saw masturbating on her porch on the night of Dec. 6, 2004.

But the prosecution's second witness, Ann Arbor Police Department Officer Craig Lee, testified that Harrison was arrested for masturbating on a porch on the 700 block of Division Street just after midnight on Dec. 7, 2004.

When asked by Longsworth if the man he arrested on Division Street was in the courtroom, Lee pointed to Harrison, who was seated at the defendant's table in a navy blazer wearing a purple tie and gray slacks.

Chambers made Harrison's identification a key issue over the course of the afternoon.

In his opening statement, the defense attorney called victims' attempts to identify Harrison "faulty, suspect and contaminated by media coverage following Mr. Harrison's arrest."

During his cross-examination of Lee, Chambers made an effort to point out that Harrison was not clearly visible to Lee at all times during the Division Street incident.

Chambers also alleged inconsistencies between Lee's testimony yesterday and prior testimony regarding the case.

Longsworth's final witness at yesterday's session was AAPD Sgt. Brian Jatczak. Jatczak was in charge of the special investigation unit of undercover officers that responded to the string of indecent exposure cases near Central Campus during the fall 2004 term.

Judge Brown ordered a recess until 8:30 a.m. today, when the trial will resume as Chambers cross-examines Jatczak.