SAN DIEGO -- A jury was selected Tuesday for the retrial of a 65-year-old man accused of molesting three boys in the late 1990s, two of whom at times lived with him in San Diego.

Opening statements are scheduled Wednesday in the second trial for Steven Bimson, who is charged with 30 counts of oral copulation of a child and one count of committing a lewd act on a child.

If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.

Judge Cynthia Bashant declared a mistrial in July, in the midst of deliberations, after a juror told fellow panelists that he had been the victim of an attempted molestation. At the time, the jury had reached verdicts on 26 of the 31 counts but was still mulling over the last five.

The verdicts on the 26 decided counts were not revealed.

Bimson's retrial is expected to last up to three weeks.

A 25-year-old man, identified only as Sam, testified at Bimson's first trial that the defendant took him in from a shelter when he was 13 and molested him every night for months.

He said he was introduced to Bimson after the defendant met his brother through a Big Brother-Big Sister program. The family had been living in a shelter because his mother was having drug and emotional problems.

Bimson was found last August semiconscious inside a rental car parked on the side of a Las Vegas freeway, with a hose running from the vehicle's exhaust pipe into the passenger compartment, authorities said.