Comment on Prospective Jurors Are Dismissed in Dozens as Trump’s Trial Begins
GrymEdm@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t know if I trust the awareness or judgment of a juror who could say they either aren’t aware of Trump or are aware but aren’t biased for or against. He’s very famous and very divisive.
silence7@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
They aren’t booting people for being aware of him — any American with a functional brain is.
They are dismissing people who say they won’t be fair to him. It’s possible to like or dislike somebody and still decide a case based on the facts of the matter. I believe the E Jean Carrol case had jurors who had voted for Trump, and they found him liable all the same.
GrymEdm@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fair. I’m mostly poking fun at the fact that, at least in my experience, there are exceptionally few people who have had a neutral stance about Trump since 2016.
ThePantser@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So they will end up with liar Trump supporters being chosen saying they can be impartial.
silence7@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
It’s a possibility. What will happen later in the selection process is that the lawyers for both sides will ask additional questions of potential jurors, and see if they can find reason to believe they might be biased. They’ll get to toss out anybody were they can show bias, and a remove some number of jurors because they just feel like it. Eventually, there will be 12 jurors and a few alternates chosen.