A potential juror was dismissed from the trial of former President Trump after expressing bias towards him due to his job. Other potential jurors also cited professional reasons and personal biases for their inability to serve.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a $130,000 payment made to adult film actor Stormy Daniels at the end of the 2016 election cycle to keep her quiet about her allegation that she and Trump had a sexual encounter. The former president has denied the allegation.
The jurors were asked to come back on Monday at 9:30 a.m. They were instructed not to talk to others about the case. A young woman who is a Harlem resident and works as a teacher. She lives with her boyfriend, loves writing, theater and traveling. She gets news from Google and TikTok and listens to podcasts on relationships and pop culture.
The juror, who works as a book seller, was struck for cause after the judge agreed his answers indicated he could be biased. One prospective juror was dismissed after Merchan asked him about an anti-Trump post to his Facebook account in 2017.“Get him out and lock him up," the post continued. Before the potential juror entered, Merchan warned Blanche that he shouldn't treat this moment as a cross-examination but rather just asking simply what the social media post was about.The juror explained, “I think I was going to my car for alternate side of the street parking. And there were people honking in the street.” She said it reminded her of cheering during Covid for health care workers in New York every evening.
In this day and age, it is also typical, if not predictable, for jury consultants or lawyers to scour prospective jurors’ social media sites for indications of bias — or alternatively, signs that the prospective juror is desirable for the defense.Judge Merchan read the Facebook post aloud in court that Blanche, Trump's lawyer, took issue with. The potential juror posted it the Saturday after the 2020 election when Joe Biden was declared the winner.
"We’re not playing around," he said."Don’t come here thinking you’re disrupting our city. That’s not going to happen and I don’t need thousands of police officers doing that."One potential juror said during questioning that she"didn’t sleep last night, thinking about… can I really do this," when asked about if she could be fully impartial against Trump in the trial.
“I find him fascinating,” one prospective juror said. “He walks into a room and he sets people off one way or the other and I find that really interesting. Really, this one guy can do all of this? Wow.” "I work in cybersecurity," she said."Due to the nature of my job, it would be extremely hard for me to be here for the hours needed for as long as this trial is going to be."The dismissed juror added that she did say she would be able to be fair and impartial toward Trump in the trial, but that actually seeing him in person was"jarring."
He also said that jurors cannot discuss the case with friends and the DA's office needs an assurance that they will keep an open mind. Steinglass added that the media hasn't heard the evidence yet that they will hear in the case.And we are getting another preview of the prosecutor's opening statements, as Joshua Steinglass is addressing the elephant in the room: Everyone knows Donald Trump.
Congress is currently considering legislation that would ban the popular social media app from the U.S. app store unless its China-based parent company, ByteDance, sells it. The House has passed the measure, and it's unclear whether the Senate plans to act on it.One prospective juror confessed in the jury box that her Facebook page contains many things that she didn't put there and does not know how to remove.
On April 13, Trump published a post on his account that said,"Has Mark POMERANTZ been prosecuted for his terrible acts in and out of the D.A.'s Office. Has disgraced attorney and felon Michael Cohen been prosecuted for LYING? Only TRUMP people get prosecuted by this Judge and these thugs! A dark day for our Country. MAGA2024!!!"One prospective juror was excused after saying having grown up in Texas and his current work in the accounting profession might impinge on his fairness.
"This is all coming from the White House, because the guy can’t put two sentences together. He can’t campaign, he’s using this in order to try to win an election, and it’s not working that way," Trump said.Former President Trump criticized the hush money trial, calling it a “scam” while addressing press in the hallway of the courtroom.
A Sandoval hearing is intended to allow defendants to make an informed decision on whether to testify by providing a pretrial determination of the permissible scope of cross-examination.that prosecutors intend to ask Trump about “thirteen different court determinations, as well as about most of the underlying facts leading to those determinations.”The scene was decidedly quieter outside the courthouse for the second day of the trial. The protest zones were empty.
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