Trump Trial Setting Could Provide Conservative Jury Pool

[Cattledog]

When Judge Aileen M. Cannon assumed control of the case stemming from former President Donald J. Trump’s indictment for putting national security secrets at risk, she set the stage for the trial to be held with a regional jury pool made up mostly of counties that Mr. Trump won handily in his two previous campaigns.

She signaled that the trial would take place in the federal courthouse where she normally sits, in Fort Pierce, at the northern end of the Southern District of Florida. The region that feeds potential jurors to that courthouse is made up of one swing county and four others that are ruby red in their political leanings and that Mr. Trump won by substantial margins in both 2016 and 2020.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/22/us/politics/trump-trial-documents-florida-jury.html

[no_hypocrisy]

1. There's the opportunity for jury nullification

where the facts and the law are ignored and set aside. Either a hung jury or TFG is acquitted.

[Rebl2]

2. That's why

many were not happy about it being tried down in FL I think. Especially with this judge. I really have to question why he, Smith, decided to hold the trial in FL.

[Lochloosa]

3. That is where the crime was committed.

[rpannier]

4. Because he is required by law to hold it in the location of the crime