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StarfishSaver

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6. Lawyers are very good at screening jurors
Sun Feb 14, 2021, 09:36 AM
Feb 2021

And in high profile cases, they use juror consultants, background investigators, etc. And they don't just look at paper trails. They use demography, psychology and all sorts of other things to assist. It's not foolproof, but it's not that easy for a a seriously devoted MAGAT to slip past them. And once people are on juries, it's often surprising how fair they try to be. Even in Manafort's case, a diehard Trump supporter voted to convict.

And many of these cases would likely be brought in New York City and Washington, DC where the population is largely minority and progressive.

As for challenging jurors on appeal, that's very difficult unless there is some obvious juror misconduct.

I'm less worried about Trump getting a jury biased in his favor than I am about the thousands of black and brown men and women who get locked up every day because the justice system treats them like they don't matter.

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