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Trump hush-money trial: Full jury sworn in after two were excused - BBC News Trump hush-money trial: Full jury sworn in after two were excused - BBC News
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Kayla Epstein We are pausing our live coverage on Donald Trump's hush-money trial now.
in New York After three days of intense questioning, a full jury of 12 people was finally confirmed this afternoon.
The jury Dozens of people were dismissed after saying they could not be impartial.
in this case is anonymous, meaning their names are not supposed to be made To read our news story about the jury selection, click here
public. Read up on Trump's hush-money trial here
Trump Find out why jury selection was especially complicated for this trial here
and the prosecutors need to know the names of the jurors in order to check This page was edited by Brandon Livesay, Tiffany Wertheimer and Graeme Baker. Madeline Halpert and Nada Tawfik were reporting from the court, and the writers were Johanna Chisholm, Imogen James and Ali Abbas Ahmadi.
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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