Posted on 04/18/2024 11:20:18 AM PDT by Red Badger
A second seated juror was dismissed on Thursday after they were sworn in by the judge presiding over the Stormy Daniels ‘hush money’ trial.
One juror on Thursday was already excused from service after she admitted to concerns about her impartiality upon being officially sworn in by Judge Juan Merchan.
“Yesterday alone, I had friends and family push things to me,” the first dismissed juror stated. “I don’t think at this point that I can be fair and unbiased.”
A second juror was dismissed over his past arrest. Details of juror number 4’s criminal past were not disclosed.
NBC News reported:
After they had a conference with the juror, Merchan announced he’s excusing juror No. 4, who had previously been seated and sworn him. His prior arrest was questioned by the DA.
A seated juror was called for questioning, with prosecutors inquiring about whether or not he was truthful in answering questions about his past criminal history.
Following a conference between the juror and Merchan, the judge said, the juror “expressed annoyance about how much information was out there about him in the public.”
And Merchan sealed the portion of the transcript where he says the juror discussed “highly personal” information.
Jury selection was underway on Thursday for Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s lawfare case against Trump. Last April Trump was hit with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records and conspiracy.
Judge Merchan admonished the mainstream media for excessive exposure of juror information. He announced that potential jurors’ places of employment would be removed from the public record and instructed members of the media to refrain from describing jurors’ appearances.
DEVELOPING…
Once during jury selection where I was a part of the pool, the prosecution had a laptop and would ask in open court things like, "Mr. Jones can you tell us what happened on June 18th 1996?" The first person they asked was stunned and took a while to answer, but for most people it was, "I got drunk and did something stupid." But this was for all to hear. I don't know if any of them ended up on the jury or not. I didn't have anything like that, and I was not selected although I believe defense wanted me (vetoed by the prosecution I'm sure).
#4 was considered a potential trump favorable juror
#2 that quit earlier in the day was considered a vote against Trump
“Tearing down political advertisements” becomes “propaganda” when the self-serving democrat judge asks whether “the propaganda came from the left or the right” eh?
So, if the advertisements that were destructively torn down were favoring a republican, would that make their destruction “legitimate protest” in the eyes of this hate-filled, foreign-born judge?
I have questions about exactly what the process is.
Typically, a jury is provided a written questionnaire in advance of coming to Court. The answers they provide are made available to counsel. I understand something like this happened in this case?
First question: Who determined the questions that were to be asked in the questionnaire? Judge Merchan? Or did counsel have input?
Then, there is a certain amount of questioning permitted of the jurors by counsel after they have made it into court (voir dire). Who is doing the questioning? Judge Merchan, or the counsel? How much time is counsel permitted to spend questionning a juror? Has Judge Merchan prevented or forbidden counsel from asking certain questions?
Finally, how many peremptory challenges is each side allowed to exercise?
Kabuki
I have no idea about any of that stuff..................
Sort of ironic that this guy was to sit on a jury where the supposed payment of "hush money" for a personal matter is being criminally charged.
I was in the jury pool for a trial. They were calling up potential jurors one at a time and asking them questions.
The judge called up another potential juror, a rather attractive young woman. One of the attorneys jumped up and asked to approach the bench. The judge called up both attorneys, they talked for a few minutes, and the judge dismissed the woman. After she left the courtroom, the judge turned to the jury pool with a scowl on his face and said, “Now, are any more of you jurors sleeping with one of these lawyers?”
I was tempted to raise my hand.
It’s a show trial. All this jury selection stuff is theater.
what is interesting is that were originally thought to be a trump favorable juror, but it turns out they were a left-wing nut job with a history of tearing down republican campaign signs.
the nice thing as the defendant you can investigate all these jurors and if you find something you can report it anonymously to the prosecution and they are bound by law to bring the information to the judge. Which might be exactly what happened here.
It is a round about way of the defense to excluded people it doesn’t want without having to waste one of it’s official cuts.
““Yesterday alone, I had friends and family push things to me,” the first dismissed juror stated. “I don’t think at this point that I can be fair and unbiased.”
Perhaps some people are putting pressure on jurors to render the “correct” verdict.
Any prospective juror who claims not to have heard about or discussed this case with anyone is a liar.
They would have to be waking up from an eight year long coma for that to be true.
Two options. Empanel a jury of 12 Biden supporters or have a bench trial with a judge who is a biden donor and who’s family gets direct payments from biden.
Hah!
Exactly. Or too dishonest to admit their bias.
The way I’ve always gotten out of jury duty was a) tell them I’m a CPA, I can think for myself, and that I believe people who break the law should be punished.
They don’t like any of that. Saying that, I never mage it past square one.
With the time President Trump must wait until the jury and alternates are filled, he must sit in court and miss any opportunity to campaign. Also, it is more time to get him for one slip of the gag order.
Why don’t these DemonKKKrats stick to ham sandwiches?
Apparently according to the scum bag judge they have a jury of 12 now..I can just imagine the kind of jurors they selected..one who claims to NOT have an opinion on Trump..yeah and I have a bridge to sell ya
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