New Yorkers who said they couldn’t approach the case fairly were excused during jury selection. But one of the women with the harshest assessments of him will be among those who will determine his fate on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
“I don’t like his persona, how he presents himself in public,” said the woman, who has lived in upper Manhattan for the last 15 years. The woman said she didn’t agree with some of Trump’s politics, which she called “outrageous.”
“He just seems very selfish and self-serving, so I don’t really appreciate that in any public servant,” she said, adding that while she doesn’t “know him as a person,” how he “portrays himself in public, it just seems to me it is not my cup of tea.”
Trump’s legal team took issue with her responses, but they were out of challenges by the time she was up for consideration.
Only a complete idiot wants to be on this jury.
Ignoring that jury duty, in general, sucks from a monetary, social, and even mental health standpoint (probably a lot of others too that i just was too lazy to think through as I wrote an aside considerably longer than the sentence up until now): The identify of these jurors will get out and their lives will be hell.
The idea of John Cusack and Rachel Weiss manipulating lawyers so they can get justice by sneaking themselves onto a jury is very much fiction.
Are you kidding? I’d give up weeks, months of my time and income for the opportunity to actually ensure justice is upheld against that slippery snake. I’d still render a fair verdict on the actual evidence, but reality is heavily biased against him
He literally led a violent insurrection against the United States and, unless I missed one (there are a few…), has seen no legal repercussions from that.
And if he is still alive by the next time there is a republican in office? He’ll walk free.
But hey. I am sure that this time will be all the difference and the identify of those jurors won’t be leaked and they and their familes won’t face violent retaliation from republican political organizations who experience no repercussions.
And, has been repeatedly demonstrated: Nobody will have your back. Or your family’s back.
Cool thing about state level crimes is the president can’t pardon them.
I can think of no better hill to die on. Too bad i won’t get the chance