BY MICHAEL WEBSTER: INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER OCT 27, 2008 at 9:55 PM PDT

Michael Carona former Orange county sheriff also known early in his career as America's sheriff started his corruption trail  today with opening statements from both the prosecution and defense counsel. Carona setting at the defense table with defense attorneys, Jeffrey Rawitz and Brian Sun along with his mistress and co-defendant Debra Hoffman. They appeared to be listening carefully as prosecutors and defense lawyers presented their very different versions to the jury as to the facts in the long awaited trail in a packed courtroom representing mostly reporters, friends and family of the lawyers and other members of the U.S. attorney's office.

The early morning overflow crowd watched the proceedings from a separate courtroom on the 6th floor at the federal court house in Santa Anna California.

Deborah Carona the ex-sheriff's wife whom is also charged in the case, but goes to trial after her husband, watched the proceedings from a seat not far from the defense table.

First in the afternoon proceedings, Hoffman's attorney Sylvia Torres-Guillen told jurors that charges were brought against her client only so the prosecution could show that

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