{"id":8854,"date":"2024-04-19T15:01:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T12:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=8854"},"modified":"2024-04-19T15:01:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T12:01:12","slug":"lawyers-aim-to-wrap-up-jury-selection-in-trump-criminal-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=8854","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers aim to wrap up jury selection in Trump criminal trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/lawyers-aim-to-wrap-up-jury-selection-in-trump-criminal-trial.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Lawyers in\u00a0Donald\u00a0Trump\u2018s criminal trial are expected on Friday to wrap up the painstaking process of selecting a jury that will for the first time in U.S. history determine whether a former president is guilty of breaking the law.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cypru-video-ads\" id=\"cypru-949806839\">\n<div id=\"cypru-1803171960\" data-cypru-trackid=\"478051\" data-cypru-trackbid=\"1\" class=\"cypru-target\">\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-3018694508538-0\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>With the 12-member jury already chosen, prosecutors and defense lawyers need to select six alternates for the trial, which is expected to run through May. Opening statements could start on Monday.<br \/>\nTwo jurors have already been removed from the case. On Thursday, Justice Juan Merchan dismissed one juror who said she felt intimidated after friends and relatives figured out she had been chosen for the trial. Another was dismissed after prosecutors questioned whether he had been truthful about prior run-ins with the law.<br \/>\nJury selection is often a contentious process, as lawyers on either side jockey to assemble a panel they hope will be most sympathetic to their interests.<br \/>\nBut it has proven especially challenging in this case, which involves a controversial former president who is accused of covering up a hush-money payment to a porn star shortly before he was elected in 2016.\u00a0Trump\u00a0has pleaded not guilty.<br \/>\nIt is one of four criminal cases\u00a0Trump\u00a0faces but the only one certain to go to trial ahead of theNov. 5 election, when the Republican politician aims to again take on Democratic President\u00a0Joe Biden. A conviction would not bar him from office.<br \/>\nRoughly half of the more than 200 potential jurors who were screened said they would not be able to impartially assess\u00a0Trump\u2018s guilt or innocence. All were drawn from Manhattan, a\u00a0heavily Democratic\u00a0city that was once\u00a0Trump\u2018s hometown.<br \/>\nTrump\u00a0has said all four criminal cases are an effort by Biden allies to undercut his campaign. His criticism of witnesses, prosecutors, the judge and their relatives in this case and others has also sparked concerns about harassment, prompting Merchan to impose a partial gag order.<br \/>\nTrump\u00a0has tested the limits of that gag order, posting on Wednesday that undercover liberal activists had been lying to get on the jury. Prosecutors have asked Merchan to penalize him.<br \/>\nMerchan has taken steps to shield jurors from harassment, saying they will remain anonymous except to\u00a0Trump, his lawyers, and prosecutors. On Thursday, he said he would prohibit news outlets from reporting on aspects of potential jurors\u2019 employment.<br \/>\nIn this case,\u00a0Trump\u00a0is accused of covering up a $130,000 payment his former lawyer Michael Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels for her silence before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she says they had a decade earlier.<br \/>\nTrump\u00a0has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records brought by\u00a0Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg\u00a0and denies any such encounter with Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford.<br \/>\nTrump\u00a0has pleaded not guilty in his other three criminal cases as well. Two accuse him of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss to Biden, while another accuses him of mishandling classified information after he left office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fact: Lawyers in Donald Trump&#8217;s criminal trial are expected to wrap up the process of selecting a jury that will determine whether a former president is guilty of breaking the 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