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POTSDAM, N.Y. -- The trial of a former college soccer coach accused of strangling his former girlfriends 12-year-old son in October 2011 starts this week and may result in a verdict, yet it will likely do little to quell the five-year controversy swirling in this rural village in northern New York.Some in Potsdam see Oral Nick Hillarys trial as a chance to finally bring a measure of justice for the family of Garrett Phillips. Justice For Garrett lawn signs still stand by roadsides and the case is still talked about often.Its on our minds, said Vikki Lavean, who works in Potsdam insurance office with a police flyer offering a reward for information in the case. We feel bad for the family. Hopefully, the mother will get some closure.But critics see a largely white community railroading a black man. The critics point to a dismissed indictment, an oft-criticized district attorney and an apparent lack of physical evidence tying Hillary to the apartment.After defense lawyers appeared in court in nearby Canton on Tuesday, they said the jury selection process scheduled to start Wednesday could stretch into next week as they filter out people who have signed petitions about the case or otherwise expressed opinions.Theres a history of visibility in this case, and thats the challenge that we have, defense lawyer Norman Siegel said. Can we find 12 people who are going to be fair and impartial?Garrett was found near death in the apartment he shared with his mother and younger brother after neighbors who heard noises called police. He died that night, Oct. 24, 2011.Police focused on Hillary early on. The Jamaica-born head soccer coach at Clarkson University had first come to northern New York as standout player at St. Lawrence University. Hillary and his teenage daughter had lived with the boys mother, Tandy Cyrus, and her two sons until the relationship ended in summer 2011.The district attorney at the time never bought charges. Things changed after Mary Rain became St. Lawrence County district attorney in 2014. Rain campaigned on a promise to make the Garrett investigation a priority and even appeared with his mother on the campaign trail.She secured a second-degree murder indictment against Hillary in 2014 that was later dismissed by a county judge. The judge said Rains grand jury presentation was marred by expressions of opinion and improperly prepared evidence.Rain got a second grand jury to hand up an indictment last year.Rain and Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick, who is helping the prosecution, declined comment Tuesday.But court documents indicate prosecutors want to show Hillary had a controlling personality and blamed the boy for his troubled relationship with his mother. The trial judge last month blocked an attempt by prosecutors to introduce a high-tech DNA mixture profile from Garretts fingernail scrapings. Prosecutors have filed a motion asking the judge to reconsider.Hillary, now 42, has consistently said he is innocent. He showed up in court Tuesday in a blue suit and listened intently to his lawyers, but did not talk the media.His defenders claim police zeroed in on him and overlooked as a suspect a sheriffs deputy who also had a past relationship with Garretts mother. An assistant soccer coach who said he had Hillary over at his house around the time of the murder said police threatened to charge him if he didnt change his testimony.As Rain prepared for trial this year, she endured complaints about her overall job performance. County lawmakers in April cited allegation of incompetence and sexual harassment in passing a resolution expressing no confidence in Rain. They asked Gov. 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Deulofeu injured a muscle in his right leg in Evertons 4-1 win over Fulham in the English Premier League on Saturday. Barcelona says that its team doctors will "co-ordinate" with Evertons medical staff as Deulofeu recovers. A former member of the United States womens gymnastics team filed a civil lawsuit Thursday against Dr. Larry Nassar in California Superior Court, claiming the long-time team doctor for USA Gymnastics sexually assaulted her during medical exams and that the legendary former coaches, Bela and Marta Karolyi, failed to protect her and engaged in their own pattern of physical and emotional abuse. The suit also claims that top USA Gymnastics officials had wide-ranging knowledge of the abuse, but for years concealed and ignored it, enabling both Nassar and the Karolyis.The claims against Nassar closely echo those made by a second former gymnast, a 2000 Olympic medalist, who sued Nassar and others in early September. Both suits claim Nassar sexually assaulted multiple team members, though the previous suit did not include specific claims against the Karolyis. ?The woman who sued Thursday, now 24, was a member of the United States womens national team from 2004 to 2010, from ages 12-18, and is identified in the lawsuit under the alias Jane Doe. ?The defendants listed in the lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court in Los Angeles County, also include the Karolyis, USA Gymnastics, its current president Steve Penny, past president Robert Colarossi, and the gymnasts own private coaches, Galina Marinova and Artur Akopyan.The sexual abuse is alleged to have occurred at the famed Karolyi Ranch in Huntsville, Texas, roughly an hour north of Houston. Since 2001, the ranch has served as the training facility for the U.S. womens national gymnastics team.The lawsuit claims Nassar would interact with the teenager under the guise of providing her care and treatments necessary for her to compete as a world-class, Olympic medal-winning gymnast. According to the suit, the doctor told her about the need to do an intravaginal adjustment, a fictitious guise where Nassar would digitally penetrate Plaintiffs vagina in order to adjust her bones. This intravaginal adjustment was done without gloves, lubricant, and/or a chaperone, and was done for [Nassars] own sexual gratification. ?The lawsuit also alleges that Bela and Marta Karolyi turned a blind-eye to Nassars sexual abuse of children at the ranch and instituted a regime of intimidation and fear at the ranch for the minor children under their custody.The lawsuit further accuses Bela and Marta Karolyi of: ?Striking the gymnasts, scratching them until they bled and encouraging parents to hit their children.Depriving gymnasts of food and water and searching the gymnasts rooms to find and confiscate hidden food.?Screaming obscenities at the gymnasts; telling them that they were fat; and requiring them to strip to their underwear so that their physical appearance could be judged in front of their peers. ?Reached on the phone Thursday at her ranch in Texas, Marta Karolyi told Outside the Lines, If its any legal matter, I have no comment on that. She declined to say anything further.USA Gymnastics, when reached Thursday, provided the following statement:USA Gymnastics denies the allegations against it in this latest lawsuit. As we have made clear, when USA Gymnastics first learned of athlete concerns regarding Dr. Nassar, we dismissed him from further involvement and reported those concerns to the FBI. Still, the allegations that have been made are troubling. USA Gymnastics is committed to promoting a safe environment for our athletes. Due to the pending litigation and ongoing investigation, however, we are unable to comment further.The other defendants, including Nassar, could not immediately be reached for comment.The lawsuit says Nassar, as a doctor, and USA Gymnastics, as his employer, were obligated to report such abusive behavior.What were really saying is the ranch was a toxic environment for these kids and a perfect environment for a pedophile to flourish, said John Manly, the attorney for both of the former U.S. gymnasts who have sued Nassar.[Bela and Marta Karolyi] had an obligation to make sure their environment was safe and they failed miserably. These were children and they were left alone with this man, who turned out to be a sexual predator, Manly added.USA Gymnastics announced in July that it had purchased the ranch from the Karolyis, which since 2011 has been known as the USA Gymnastics National Team Training Center at the Karolyi Ranch. Athletes of all ages and skill levels are impacted by the prestige and tradition embodied at the Ranch, and we are excited to continue the legacy of success, USA Gymnastics said in a press release announcing the purchase.The lawsuit alleges the Karolyis allowed Nassar to have unfettered and secluded access to minor children, including the Plaintiff, in the childrens living and sleeping quarters, a violation of USA Gymnastics own policies.Nassar would pre-sexually groom these minor children into believing that he was their friend and confidant, the lawsuit alleges, in contrast to the oppressive and abusive treatment by [the Karolyis], sneaking the gymnasts food, candy and other contraband to build trust.He built this relationship in order to sexually abuse these minors, including the Plaintiff, the lawsuit alleges.The Karolyis enabled Nassar, according to the lawsuit, by engaging essentially in a quid pro quo: by turning a blind eye to Nassars sexual abuse of children at the ranch, the lawsuit claims, they ensured that he would never report their abuses.Bela and Marta Karolyi kept Nassar on because he was willing to keep their secrets, and when you have secrets in an environment with children, thats where pedophiles flourish, Manly said.The lawsuit also alleges that Robert Colarossi, USA Gymnastics president from 1998 to 2005, and Steve Penny, the organizations president since 2005, oversaw a wide-ranging, calculated concealment of numerous instances, complaints, and allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct.Bela Karolyi, the former Romanian gymnastics coach, first gained fame for training 1976 gold medalist Nadia Comaneci. After defecting to the United States with his wife Marta in 1981, Karolyi went on to train a string of American Olympic gold medalists, beginning with Mary Lou Retton in 1984.He was named U.S. National Team Coordinator in 1999, a position his wife, Marta, later assumed in 2001 until her retirement after the Rio Olympics. Marta was widely praised during the recent summer games for building the U.S. women into a powerhouse; the squad brought home nine medals from Rio, including the all-around team gold.Nassar, 53, an osteopathic physician, worked with the U.S. womens gymnastics team from 1986 to 2015, first as a trainer and then, starting in 1996, as team doctor. He was a fixture at the Karolyis ranch, where he treated dozens of elite-level gymnasts.Nassar was fired by USA Gymnastics in the summer of 2015 after officials received complaints of sexual misconduct during medical exams.Immediately after learning of athlete concerns about Dr. Nassar in the summer of 2015, Steve Penny, president and CEO of USA Gymnastics, notified law enforcement, USA Gymnastics said in a statement released last month. We also relieved Dr. Nassar of his duties, and he ceased to be affiliated with USA Gymnastics.Penny would not comment to Outside the Lines, but a spokeswoman for USA Gymnastics acknowledged Penny reported the allegations against Nassar to the FBI.Despite being released by USA Gymnastics, Nassar continued to practice medicine at his alma mater, Michigan State University, where hed worked as a faculty member and treating clinician since August 1997. He also continued in his role as team physician for Twistars Gymnastic Club USA, in Michigan, and as a volunteer for the high school gymnastics squad in nearby Holt.All of that changed in late August.On Aug. 29, Rachael Denhollander filed a complaint with Michigan State University Police, claiming Nassar sexually abused her during a medical exam in 2000 when Denhollander was a 15-year-old club level gymnast. Denhollander, who initially told her story to the Indianapolis Star, declined to comment to Outside the Lines.A day after receiving Denhollanders criminal complaint, Michigan State University suspended Nassar from treating patients at the schools sports medicine facility. He was fired by the school on Sept. 20. He is also no longer in his role with Holt High School. A Twistar employee told Outside the Lines that Nassar previously worked in a volunteer capacity for the club, but has not for months and is not coming to the gym anymore.??Outside the Lines has learned that Denhollanders police repoort turned out to be the first of dozens filed with Michigan State University Police.ddddddddddddeve received multiple additional complaints and were continuing to receive more complaints, Michigan State University spokesman Jason Cody said. ?Though Cody would not specify the number of complaints against Nassar -- or whether they were from gymnasts or other patients -- federal crime logs reviewed by Outside the Lines indicate that more than 30 complaints of criminal sexual conduct have been filed since the end of August in connection with addresses where Nassar treated patients not far from the Michigan State University main campus in East Lansing.I have approximately 20 other girls and women whove come forward to us that have alleged abuse by Dr. Nassar, Manly said.Nassar has not been criminally charged.He is being investigated in Michigan, though. Earlier this month the states attorney generals office took over the increasingly sprawling case, citing its complex nature, which crosses into several different jurisdictions in Michigan and, possibly, other states.Nobody can put a time frame on when he might be charged, Nassars attorney, Matt Newburg, told Outside the Lines, adding that there is no statute of limitations in Michigan for criminal sexual conduct in the first degree. Newburg and his co-counsel, Shannon Smith, declined to discuss the growing number of criminal and civil complaints against their client.In the previous civil complaint, filed by a member of the 2000 womens gymnastics team, Nassar was accused of perpetrating similar assaults while the team was traveling for competition.The former Olympian said in the suit that Nassar started grooming her when she first joined the team in 1994 and that he would fondle and grope the [her] feet, ankles, thighs, buttocks, hips, waist, breasts ... and neck, placing [her] under the impression this inappropriate contact was part of treatment.She also claimed Nassar openly discussed inappropriate topics during his treatments.[Nassar] would tell the minor Plaintiff that other gymnasts would give blowjobs and described in detail the process of oral sex and other bizarre, explicit sexual innuendo, the lawsuit claims.During the treatment, the September lawsuit claims, Nassar would introduce his bare hand to Plaintiffs vagina and anus, on multiple locations, in Plaintiffs assigned sleeping quarters, as she lay on the edge of her bed, alone and without any supervision of a chaperone. Similar to the complaint filed Thursday, Nassar allegedly told the gymnast that he was performing a medical procedure called an intravaginal adjustment.The exams were conducted without gloves or lubricant and without a chaperone present, according to the lawsuit.Our belief is that he was performing a medical treatment that wa