Jurors’ names will be kept secret at the upcoming civil trial in a writer’s rape lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, a judge ruled, citing “a very strong risk” they would otherwise face harassment and more
Besides having their names kept confidential, jurors will be transported to and from court and sequestered from the public while on breaks there.
This winter, for example, anonymous juries were used in the Brooklyn federal criminal trials of a New Yorker convicted of fighting for the Islamic State extremist group in Syria, and of a former cabinet-level Mexican official convicted of shielding violent drug cartels from police in exchange for huge bribes.
Trump denies sexually assaulting or even knowing her, while repeatedly adding that she's “not my type.”
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