Jury selection starts today for the trial of Hakim Scott and Keith Phoenix, who are accused of fatally beating Jose Sucuzhanay in Brooklyn last year. Police say Scott and Phoenix beat Sucuzhanay (pictured), an Ecuadorian immigrant who owned a real estate agency, because they thought he was gay (anti-gay and anti-Hispanic epithets were allegedly yelled), when he was really just tipsy and walking arm-in-arm with his brother. Cops also say Phoenix confessed ("So I killed someone—that makes me a bad guy?"), claiming self-defense. Scott recently turned down a plea deal for 18 years, insisting, "I didn't kill nobody."