Posted on 06/27/2015 9:08:22 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Donald Trump to finally report for jury duty after claiming he never received 5 summonses in past 9 years Presidential candidate Donald Trump has made a firm date to report for jury duty on Aug. 17, Manhattan court officials confirmed Friday.
Officials have told the bombastic billionaire — who was just fined $250 for ignoring five jury summonses in nine years — that the fine will be erased as soon as he shows up for service, according to Trump's attorney Michael Cohen. Cohen said Trump didn’t show for jury service because notices were mailed to the wrong place — a Central Park South condominium building that Trump manages.
Cohen said Trump has never had an office or residence there. He lives and works in Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.
“Is this a Democratic plot to keep Mr. Trump off the campaign trail?” Cohen fumed Friday.
Court officials confirmed that the date was chosen by Trump because it was the first opening in his busy campaign schedule.
It’s also an ideal date for someone who wants to minimize his chance of spending more than a day on jury duty, because there are so few trials that month.
Administrative Judge Peter Moulton said the courts are open, and judges are available but lawyers take vacations — and there are only two jury trials slated to begin in Manhattan Supreme Court in the last two weeks of August.
Manhattan County Clerk Milton Tingling said Trump — like any other juror reporting to civil court — could be sent to Centre Street to serve time in the criminal courts. Either way, once he's served, even if only for a day, he's free for six years.
The results will be epic. First time in the history of NY Courts that the jury verdict was “you’re fired!”
Laws are for little people.
They should skip the politicizing and negativity and leverage this for the positive citizenship that Trump might demonstrate. He should embrace jury duty, which I think I heard him do in a comment elsewhere. Likely be dismissed but that is in the details.
Where I live I get one every year. They come in like clockwork. Everyone in our county gets one because our DA does not like to let criminals plea bargain.
I always get booted from the pool, but I always show up.
The only jury I was ever empaneled on didn’t go to trial because the defendant was smart enough to know that with that jury he was not going to get any mercy. We were all itching to hang him and he knew it.
Just tell them you believe in jury-nullification and you will be out of there in no time, Donald.
That “bombastic” bastard Trump!
This Trump guy is daily entertaiment for the masses.
More theater of the absurd. What lawyer would want The Donald serving on his jury?
He skipped jury duty, he’s ineligible for the White House.
Seems legit.
Plans are in the works, I’m sure...
To keep Trump stuck on a murder jury trial until November 5th of next year.
The false gods on the Supremacist Court certainly believe THEY have the power to nullify laws they don’t agree with or the application there of (regardless of Constitutionality).
Mr Combover is just another chunk of Post Modern disinfotainment!!!
hes saying he MAY announce///
WHO will really care???
I’ve received notices a half a dozen times, and sent in regrets on half of those because of absences from area. Twice I wasn’t even called. Once I sat around with a huge group, answered a few general questions with that group, but they never got to my number by the time they had all that they needed. They wanted to pay me, but I said there was no way I was taking money for sitting in a chair answering half a dozen yes or no questions. They raised their eyebrows but no one threatened me with weapons, so I smiled and departed.
“Senator Ted Cruz slipped off his black cowboy boots, unbuckled his belt and glided through security on Friday morning to report for a different kind of civic responsibility: Jury duty.
Just like many of the other 100 or so Harris County residents summoned, Cruz set off the detectors’ alarm (Blame his watch). Just like many of them, he accidentally stole the court’s pen after filling out his information (He returned it). And just like many of them, Ted Cruz appeared painstakingly bored.
“Whether you’re new to the workforce or you may serve in Washington,” District Clerk Chris Daniel told the crowd, drawing laughs, “one way or another, we’re thankful you all came out here for jury duty today.”
Cruz, selected at random from the Harris County voter roll, did land on a jury panel for voir dire and will learn this afternoon whether he serves on a two-day trial for evading arrest set to begin Monday.
As a sitting U.S. Senator, Cruz could have been exempt from jury duty, but he said he was willing and able to serve on his first panel if attorneys decided they wanted Texas’ former solicitor general determining guilt in their felony criminal case.
“It would be a bit of a complication if I ended up in a six-week trial,” said the state’s junior senator, who is also seriously weighing a presidential bid next year, as he entered the Harris County Juror Plaza. “But I think, at the end of the day, that’ll work itself out.”
For two hours, Cruz waited and waited and waited, sipping his Starbucks coffee and twiddling his fingers until officials finally called out “Rafael Edward Cruz.”
You sound like Trumps lawyer. If Trump has blown off five summons's to date then this predates his campaign announcement by several years.
"We'll hang'em in the morning, and THEN we'll giv'em a fair trial".
We may not like it but they do have the power to nullify law or even rewrite a law and there is absolutely no one challenging their newly assumed power.
It will be great publicity for Donald. He knows it. I love it. :-)
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