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Madeline Halpert Kayla Epstein
Reporting from court in New York
The jurors' numbers have just been read out loud and they are now being sworn in, alongside one alternate. The jury
Some experts predicted this process could take as long as two weeks, but things moved quickly today after Trump's team ran out of challenges without cause. in this case is anonymous, meaning their names are not supposed to be made
Court will soon end for the day. Justice Merchan seems hopeful that opening statements can begin on Monday as he had planned. We still have as many as five alternates to seat. public.
Trump
and the prosecutors need to know the names of the jurors in order to check
their backgrounds for bias or other compromising factors, explained Anna
Cominsky, a professor at New York Law School.
“What makes
this case really different is, we usually see the jury secrecy - an anonymous
jury - when it’s the defendant or potential witnesses who we’re concerned about
[learning their identities], she said. “This became common with mafia
cases.”
“This is
so different because it’s not people inside the courtroom we’re concerned about - it’s people outside the courtroom we’re concerned about,” Cominsky said.
Trump inspires
both intense criticism and loyalty from different corners of the public. A
juror who is publicly identified, even by online sleuths, could face a deluge
of threats and vitriol.
Justice Merchan, Cominsky said, must walk a fine line between protecting the jurors and maintaining transparency in such an important case.
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