Submitted 4 weeks ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz
But the ritual of choosing the jury got off to a slow start as more than half of the first group of 96 potential jurors raised their hands to say they could not be fair to Mr. Trump, demonstrating the challenges of picking an impartial panel in a city where the defendant is widely loathed. The judge immediately excused them.
What I'm most concerned about is a MAGAT getting on the jury to nullify it. I only takes one, and they know it.
Yeah the thing is though that if they can prove they did that on purpose the juror can be tried for perjury for lying during their juror questioning, which is specially crafted to ask “is there any reason at all you will rule against the evidence because of your personal beliefs, yes or no?”
If they answer yes, tossed, if they say no and get on the jury then proceed to do it, they just lied on the stand and are exposed to prosecution, and I’m pretty sure the case can get retried.
I’m curious how often that’s happened. It sounds really tricky to prove someone’s motivation in that scenario.
Wait, are there cities where he isn’t widely loathed?
Moscow.
They deserve each other
Buncha poor rural towns who think a New York fraudster born into wealth understand their plight and cares about them because he says he does while all his actions screw them over.
basically no.
medium.com/…/the-biggest-cities-that-trump-won-63…
Wichita Oklahoma city Colorado springs Bakersfield Mesa
so not places you would think about as cities or readily be able to place on a map.
As much as I want to see this horrible man brought to justice there’s no way I’d want to sit on one of those juries with all of his unhinged supporters out there.
If do it if I lived there… and if I didn’t have a digital anti-Trump data trail a light year across. I can be “impartial” for the right cause.
GrymEdm@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
So they will end up with liar Trump supporters being chosen saying they can be impartial.