Alvin Bragg’s kangaroo court to try and jail Donald Trump is underway.
But right off the bat, Bragg got hit with a curveball.
And Alvin Bragg got some bad news from one unexpected source.
Seating a jury in the Trump trial will be darn near impossible.
The historic nature of the case and the political nature of the trial makes a mockery of the idea that Trump can face an impartial jury of his peers.
Right off the bat, two jurors dropped out.
The first, a nurse, told Judge Juan Merchan she could no longer be impartial after news reports by CNN and the Washington Post made it easy for friends and family to identify her and they quickly began bombarding her with news stories about the case and her being a juror.
“Yesterday, alone, I had friends, colleagues and family push things to my phone regarding questioning my identity as a juror,” the juror explained in court.
“I don’t believe, at this point, that I can be fair and unbiased and let the outside influences not affect my thinking in the courtroom,” the juror concluded.
Judge Merchan then excused her.
The prosecution got a second juror booted after finding out they may have hidden the fact that they were arrested for political vandalism in the 1990s for allegedly tearing down conservative posters.
“Juror number four, dismissed Thursday afternoon, was excused after prosecutors said they found a news article showing that someone with the same name as his juror had previously ‘been arrested in Westchester for tearing down political advertisements,’” Axios reported.
Jurors getting knocked off the case this early was a good sign for Donald Trump, according to jury consultant Carolyn Koch.
Koch told CNN that jurors could see the chaos and publicity surrounding the case and get cold feet over having to be the people who convict a former president of what is really a “crime” because Bragg imagined it out of thin air.
“What’s happened with juror number two, if others start to get wind of that, I think people are going to start to get the jitters,” Koch began. “And if I’m on the defense side of it, that’s going to make me extremely happy, because any unraveling of this is in my best interest.”
Koch explained that in cases with famous defendants the lawyers are usually prepared to weed out jurors in jury selection, but that in this case Judge Merchan limited questions the lawyers could ask jurors about their political leanings and affiliations.
“In my experience in cases that were high-profile involving political issues or serious crimes and questionnaires were being used, they were written questionnaires that the lawyers got in advance, and so both sides weren’t scrambling in open court with lots of people there trying to, on the spot, figure things out,” Koch continued. “They had time in advance to really scour the landscape to make sure that on the day of jury selection, people are properly vetted. So you’re not going to have surprises like that.”
Donald Trump’s best bet is one holdout juror unwilling to convict because they see the Democrat Party marshalling the forces of the court system to jail a political opponent on charges that don’t even rise to the level of nickel and dime.
Koch believes jurors already asking off the case could mean Trump stands a better chance than previously thought of getting that one holdout juror leading to a hung jury, which would be a massive victory.
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