To be fair, getting an impartial jury in this case is a lot harder than it would be normally.
No idea why you got downvoted. Nearly everyone will know who he is, since he was the damn President of the country. Nearly everyone will know a lot of stuff about him, since he never fucking shuts up on social media. He has a large percentage of the country who loves him and a larger percentage of people who absolutely hate him. Finally, the case and jury selection is in New York, where he has been in the news for 40 years.
People seem to think that a prior opinion about the dependent automatically means that a potential juror cannot be impartial. All that is required is that the juror can render a verdict based solely on the evidence presented at trial. Plenty of people with strong opinions about Trump himself can still be impartial jurors.
I’m not sure that’s true. Even a person with a great deal of integrity and respect for the law is going to be biased subconsciously to some extent by the knowledge that this case may change the outcome of a particularly important presidential election. A person whose respect for the law is less than absolute may even consider affecting the outcome of the election to be a moral obligation.
More autistic people should be jurors. It would be the perfect job for certain autistic people who are very rules based.
Hi government please choose me as juror I definitely will not intentionally give him the maximum sentence
Yup. And those 10 strikes are for exactly that. If you can’t prove a juror will be biased but suspect they will be, then you can use one of your 10 strikes to exclude them. But you have an unlimited amount of “for cause” strikes, where the juror has admitted that they wouldn’t be able to stay impartial.
You couldn’t pay me enough to be a juror for that trial. Sure, just paint a target on my back for this cult leader who’s backed by half the government!
Mine pays $4 for the first day, and $12 per subsequent day if the trial lasts longer than one day. Parking in the attached garage is $15 per day.
Lol they give you the money then take it right back. You would think the justice system would be more fair than that
Trump mostly caused those issues though. He talks about these things constantly. Then argues the trial cannot start because there’s too much attention.
Further, there is a pre selection. The judge rejected loads of people beforehand.
Trump mostly caused those issues though. He talks about these things constantly. Then argues the trial cannot start because there’s too much attention.
Hmm. That might actually be a valid legal strategy. I’m not sure that the fact that the defendant caused the problem actually takes away their protections.
Honestly, Trump is so globally visible that I don’t know how you’d remedy that, though. A change of venue isn’t going to change anything.
“No one can judge me!” - Donald Trump literally
Is it reasonable to think that if his lawyers get even one maga nut on the jury, they’d have to re-try the case?
I am pretty certain jury verdicts have to be unanimous or it’s a mistrial, so, yeah, that’s a reasonable thing to think
The fact that they are going through social media history makes this significantly less of a risk, but it’s still a risk.
On the plus side this is New York, the city that knows him best. And they fucking hate him.
It’s up to the government to decide whether or not they re-try a case if there is a hung jury. It’s my understanding that most of the time, they do not re-try the case because of the time and effort involved with no guarantee that the outcome would be any different. So usually a hung jury is a victory for the defense.
I’m not a lawyer, that’s just my layman’s understanding from the legal stuff I’ve seen and read.
