A US district judge in Manhattan ordered an anonymous jury for rape accuser E. Jean Carroll's defamation trial against Donald Trump, citing the risk of jury harassment and Trump's reaction to the possibility of being indicted in a separate case.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said details such as the names, places of employment, and addresses of jurors in the trial slated for April 25 would be shielded from public record, adding that the members would be transported in a group to and from the courthouse."In these circumstances, this Court is obliged to consider the likely effect on jurors ...
Last week, Trump posted to social media and told his supporters to"protest" and"take our country back" if he were indicted in a separate case over hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. Kaplan noted these comments were part of what prompted his decision to keep the jury anonymous. "And where there is a genuine need for an anonymous jury and reasonable precautions are taken, its use does not violate either the common law or the Constitution, even in a criminal case," the judge said.Carroll, a former columnist for Elle magazine, has alleged Trump raped her in the late 1990s in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in New York.
Trump is also being sued by her for alleged defamation over his June 2019 denial that the sexual assault occurred. That trial was slated to begin on April 10, but it was indefinitely postponed after parties in both cases moved to consolidate the pair of lawsuits.
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