Several hundred Manhattan residents were recently sent notices to appear at the borough’s criminal court on April 15. Whether they know it or not, they’re under consideration to be jurors in perhaps the most high-profile criminal trial in U.S. history.
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and Manhattan prosecutors are poised to scrutinize more than 500 potential jurors when his trial gets underway, according to two sources, a staggering number that reflects the magnitude of the case itself.
The attorneys will review their responses to lengthy questionnaires before interviewing many of them individually in court, with the goal of reaching consensus on who should be selected. It’s an arduous process that’s designed to ferret out prospective jurors who can’t put aside their biases, and it could take days or even weeks.
Ultimately, the group will be whittled down to 12 jurors and a few alternates. They’ll be tasked with deciding whether the former president illegally falsified business records after his attorney paid “hush money” to an adult film star days before the 2016 election. He faces 34 felony counts and has pleaded not guilty.
It’s going to be tough to find twelve people in Manhattan who don’t hate Trump.
Black people hate him because of the Central Park 5.
Gay people hate him for abandoning Roy Cohn when Roy was diagnosed with AIDS.
Rich people hate him for destroying a landmark building he promised to preserve.
When the 2020 election results came in, people were dancing in the streets
It’s deeper than that, Arlo Guthrie’s dad even wrote a song about Trump’s dad being a racist slumlord back in the 50s…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_Trump
trump as president did away with the regulations. Biden put a new one in, but I’m not sure how good it is.
But it would be naive to think Trump won’t do the same day 1
That’s the first time I’ve ever heard of someone not just saying Woody Guthrie.
I feel like when we’re talking about how long New York has hated the Trump’s it’s important to illustrate this has been going on for generations.
If the jurors grandparents lived in NYC, they probably hated a trump.
Hating trumps goes back a long way
Arlo was a big deal in the 1960s, and that’s ancient history to people born after 2000 AD.
So remind them, don’t complain about them not knowing about something you never told them about.
Fucking young people, never knowing about history. Maybe if they picked themselves up by the diaper-strap they could fund their own schools.
A while back, I picked up a reprint of an EC comic from the 1950s, before I was born. “Frontline Combat” was on the same level as Batman or Wonder Woman; it wasn’t trying to educate, it was pure entertainment. The issue I read was a Civil War Special. That children’s comic had a biography of Lincoln; a discussion of the blockade to strangle the South’s economy; a quick nod to the physics of skipping a cannonball over water; and enough solid information for an AP history class.
Bugs Bunny cartoons introduced millions of kids to opera and classical music. Rocky and Bullwinkle met Cleopatra and Julius Cesar.
Most parents don’t sit their kids down and talk about world history, unless it applies directly to them. Kids learn passively by absorbing what they are presented with.
Before ‘Star Wars’ the biggest, most lavish movies were historical. You went to see “Lawrence of Arabia” for the action, and got bits of history sprinkled in.
These days, you almost never see anything like that. “Napoleon” didn’t make much of a splash, and “Oppenheimer” isn’t exactly getting the grade school crowd.
You can also add the Right Wing anti-education push, but mostly I blame the entertainment industry. There was a short lived attempt to correct this; Stephen Spielberg made the same arguments I just did, and came up with a show “Hysteria” that tried to be fun and educational.
Arlo’s dad’s machine kills fascists.
After a lifetime of living in New York, and almost a decade of focusing on Trump daily, there is always some new bit of data about how terrible he is.
Jury of your peers…it’s not the court’s fault if you’ve destroyed your rapport with them.
Damn good thing the trial isn’t in Staten.
Now that is a jury duty I would be interested in showing up for. lol
You would have to stay anonymous if chosen. Trump and conservative thugs will be watching to figure out who is on the jury, so they can squeeze them. It’s like a damn mafia trial.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and Manhattan prosecutors are poised to scrutinize more than 500 potential jurors when his trial gets underway, according to two sources, a staggering number that reflects the magnitude of the case itself.
They’ll be tasked with deciding whether the former president illegally falsified business records after his attorney paid “hush money” to an adult film star days before the 2016 election.
“This particular person may be the most famous defendant who has ever lived,” said Levin, now a private attorney who previously represented the daughter-in-law of Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s longtime chief financial officer.
In a case with this much pretrial publicity, the usual challenge of finding enough people willing or able to sit through the trial is thrown out the window, according to Pace University Law School Professor Bennett Gershman.
“What you do now with these jurors is you have a jury consultant, and they’re sitting there with a laptop and they go through all the social media stuff, they Google them and they see who the hell they are,” said Aidala, whose firm also represents former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in the 2020 election-related case in Georgia.
On March 26, Judge Juan Merchan issued a gag order restricting what Trump and others could say about potential witnesses, court personnel and district attorney staff, as well as their families.
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