Trump classified documents case: judge holds hearing on dismissing charges

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

74. I was an attorney, so this might help:

Trial Handbook for Jurors
page 6

THE JURORS’ SOLEMN OATH
After the voir dire is completed, the jurors
selected to try the case will be sworn in. The
judge or the clerk will state to the jury:
“Members of the Jury, you will rise, hold up
your right hands, and be sworn to try this
case.”
The jurors then rise and hold up their
right hands. The jurors face the judge or
the clerk who is to administer the oath.
That official slowly, solemnly, and clearly
repeats the oath. The jurors indicate by their
responses and upraised hands that they take
this solemn oath.
Jurors not wishing to take an oath may
request to affirm instead of swear. In some
districts the jury is sworn upon the Bible and
not by uplifted hand.

After the jury is sworn in, the case follows a specified order of events -- judge's welcome, prosecutor and defendant's arguments, presentation of evidence, more arguments, judge's instructions to the jury, deliberation and decision. There' s a prescribed court decorum, but it was established for the normal reasonable person. When the defendant is a narcissistic sociopath cultist who is leading his party like a mob boss pied piper over a cliff, all bets are off.j