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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf/When a Jury is seated in the trial of Donald J. Trump...
How in the hell will they pick jurors?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-6/right-to-an-impartial-jury-current-doctrine
From reading this... it seems Trump has every right to have 6 Trump voters on the jury.
They must have no knowledge of the Stormy/NDA case...
But an opinion of the defendant isn't a deal breaker.
Ocelot II
(115,836 posts)WarGamer
(12,483 posts)If it's denied by the Case Judge, somewhere upstairs it'll be ordered.
Ocelot II
(115,836 posts)who are "untainted" by knowledge of the case. TFG isn't entitled to jurors who voted for him; he's only entitled to jurors who are able to set aside personal biases for or against him and consider the evidence objectively. Also, an order denying a change of venue is generally considered to be interlocutory and therefore not appealable.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,610 posts)Georgia and MAL will be the the test to if we allow some people to be above the law.
unblock
(52,317 posts)One person out of 12 getting bamboozled or buying any of a number of silly arguments the defense throws at them?
It's all political, or vindictive prosecution, or bad precedent to lock up a former president, or maybe they'll say he had no idea what was going on at his companies he just signed papers.
Whatever horsecrap they serve up, someone will swallow it.