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Panelists include a salesman, an oncology nurse, an IT consultant, a teacher and a software engineer. The seven were sworn in and told to return to court on Monday.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.
One juror who works in the real estate industry was asking about any potential relationship with someone who knows Trump. The juror said that he knows people who know the former president. The juror said he was an"admirer from afar of some of the work." While the potential juror said that he does not use X, at one point he followed “the president,” presumably referencing Trump. He also said that he read Trump’s book"The Art of the Deal" a"long time ago."The judge brought in the next group of 96 potential jurors into the courtroom and told them to return to begin selection at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday.
A woman who lives on Upper East Side and works as an oncology nurse at Memorial Sloan Kettering. She is engaged and likes to spend time with family and friends and take her dog to the park. She gets news from CNN, The New York Times, Google and Facebook.A young man who has lived in Chelsea for five years, works as an attorney in corporate law, and likes to hike and run. He gets news from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Google.
Prosecutor Steinglass asked if she had any doubt whether she could base her decision solely on evidence. She said no. “I don’t think this is what they meant, that orange is the new black," Merchan read from the post. Trump looked straight ahead and didn’t appear to have much of a reaction.The judge then said that they're not going to go through the trial process like this and told Blanche that all that needs to be asked is if the issue at hand would affect their ability to be fair and impartial.
The prospective juror answered that he did not remember posting it, but it was on his account, so he must have. He added that he"did have strong views” on Trump at the time of the post in 2017.“I will not have any jurors intimidated in this courtroom. I want to make this crystal clear,” Merchan said.
After the juror left the room, Merchan said he wanted to get something on the record."While the juror was 12 feet from your client," the judge said,"your client was audibly" saying something in the direction of the juror.Criminal defendants of means — or with PAC money — hire jury consultants to expand the defense's resources to include thoroughly cross-examining prospective jurors.
Merchan asked Blanche how that post calls into question the juror's ability to be fair during trial. Blanche said it was because the juror expressed their opinion about Trump.Trump's defense team is putting up a fight on the group of jurors that sat for voir dire before lunch. When Blanche pushed her, asking if she really does not have an opinion on the case, she said she"doesn't think I will have a problem separating that and starting at zero."
“What about your opinion of him, having nothing to do with this case? What opinion did you walk in here with?” The woman said that she made eye contact with Trump twice, once when she first began to read off the questionnaire and again right after she had finished and was dismissed.Trump has signed a form to waive his right to be present at sidebars — meetings held between lawyers from both sides and the judge to discuss nonpublic matters.Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass said to the potential jurors that"several of these witnesses have what you might consider to be some baggage.
"It’s not a referendum on the Trump presidency ... we don’t care. This case is about whether this man broke the law.”“I believe no one’s above the law, so I guess that’s a strong opinion,” she said. Asked by the judge whether she could be impartial, she said she wasn’t certain. The DA’s office also asked the judge to warn Trump “that future violations of the Court’s restrictions on his extrajudicial statements can be punished not only with additional fines, but also with a term of incarceration of up to thirty days.”On April 10, Trump"reproduced" a social media post from former Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti.
The former president downplayed the charges against him, saying he was"paying a lawyer and he marked it down as a legal expense, I didn’t know." The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, has in the past been skeptical of prosecutors when they assert broad applications of criminal provisions.Trump himself faces charges of violating the same law, as well as conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. They are among four charges he faces in his election interference case in Washington, separate from the hush money prosecution currently moving ahead in New York.
“You don’t believe you should be here right now?” the outraged judge responded. “He’s required to be here. He’s not required to be at the Supreme Court.”Inside a courthouse nestled between Tribeca and Chinatown yesterday morning, Trump’s lawyers argued with the district attorney’s office over procedures for a hush money case that could send an ex-commander in chief to prison for the first time in American history.
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