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Jury is shrinking, not growing

Kayla Epstein in New York

Jury selection is now into its third day, and we have actually lost a juror rather than gaining any.

We are now down to six. Here is how we got here:

As my colleague Madeline Halpert reported earlier, Juror #2 asked to be excused because people in her life had started to figure out her identity based on news reports.

It goes to show the extremely high stakes not just for Donald Trump, his lawyers, and the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, but the 12 regular people who will be swept up in the trial along with them.

The court went back and forth over the most revealing questions – about employers and employment history. Justice Merchan ultimately agreed with Trump’s lawyers that it was important to obtain information about prospective juror’s employers.

But he issued a caveat: those answers will be struck from the court records, and he directed the dozens of reporters watching from an overflow courtroom not to publicly report those answers.

*** A further update posted just now ... ***

Madeline Halpert reporting from court

We've just been told that juror number four has been excused.

That means we're now down to five jurors. We don't know why exactly he was dismissed.

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[–] comador@lemmy.world 58 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is just another form of delay tactics by the defense, nothing more.

The longer they drag out jury selection, the longer the trial runs, which gives them more time for everything from prepping the defense to giving the ranting monkey more time for his campaign.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There was a lot of discussion on this yesterday. It seems to me like way too much information regarding the jurors is getting out.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, yeah. Trump is a wannabe mob boss and is using his cult to tamper with the jury.

[–] KamikazeRusher@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I highlighted some of that here:

https://lemm.ee/comment/11220419

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They are going to try to doxx every juror in every one of these trials and they could succeed.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If Trump's people get the names, there's a 100% chance they leak them.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

They have Russian hackers on their side.

[–] ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

That’s what you get when you put a clown on trial.