Legal expert, Wendy Patrick, visits CBS 8 to discuss jury selection in the Donald Trump criminal case.
The process of picking a jury is a critical phase of any criminal trial but especially when the defendant is a former president and presumptive Republican nominee.asked Thursday for the former president to be held in contempt and fined because of seven social media posts that they said violated a judge's gag order barring him from attacking witnesses.
The dismissal leaves six on the panel so far, including a software engineer, an information technology professional, a sales professional, an English teacher and two lawyers. He said that “as evidenced by what’s happened already, it’s become a problem.” The answers also will be redacted from court transcripts.
Trump lawyer Emil Bove said Cohen “has been attacking President Trump in public statements,” and Trump was just replying. Inside the court, there's broad acknowledgment of the futility in trying to find jurors without knowledge of Trump, with a prosecutor this week saying that lawyers were not looking for people who had been “living under a rock for the past eight years.”
The process has moved swifter than expected, prompting Trump when leaving the courthouse on Tuesday to complain to reporters that the judge, , made shortly before the 2016 election to porn actor Stormy Daniels to prevent her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump from becoming public in the race's final days.
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