Wichita ? The trial of the man who admitted killing one of the nation’s few late-term abortion providers began behind closed doors Wednesday, after the judge overseeing it agreed to open only the latter part of jury selection.

Jurors will determine the fate of Scott Roeder, charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Dr. George Tiller last May.

The process of choosing them started in secret after Sedgwick County Judge Warren Wilbert ruled that representatives of four media outlets could sit in the courtroom once the pool was narrowed to 42. The four outlets had appealed his earlier decision to close jury selection entirely.

Late Tuesday, the Kansas Supreme Court ordered Wilbert to reconsider requests from the media outlets that wanted access to jury selection and the jury questionnaire. His latest ruling assumes all prospective jurors would want to be questioned in private about unspecified “sensitive” issues. The 88-question jury questionnaire included a single query about jurors’ personal opinions on abortion and seven questions about their religious beliefs.