Superior Court Judge Robert Perry hopes to have a panel seated in two days. Opening statements are scheduled for Wednesday. The judge said questionnaires filled out by prospective jurors show most of them know something about the model's life and death.

"I was a little disappointed with the responses to the question, 'What have you learned about the case?'" he said. "The answers were, 'Only what I saw on TV.'"Perry indicated more needs to be known before a jury is selected for the trial of Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and Howard K. Stern.

The defendants have pleaded not guilty to conspiring to illegally provide the former Playboy model with massive amounts of opiates and sedatives. They are not charged in Smith's 2007 overdose death in Florida. Perry said he won't allow testimony about the cause of Smith's death because it is not part of the charges.

"Most of the jurors have heard there was an overdose in Ms. Smith's case," he said. "Another case I'm aware of where a celebrity died, a doctor is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death. You don't have that here."