{"id":2221805,"date":"2024-04-15T20:21:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T00:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-trial-no-jurors-selected-on-day-one\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T20:25:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T00:25:26","slug":"trump-trial-no-jurors-selected-on-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-trial-no-jurors-selected-on-day-one\/","title":{"rendered":"No jurors were chosen on the first day of the Trump trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-trial-no-jurors-selected-on-day-one%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2221805&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A New York judge screened almost a hundred \u200bpotential jurors for \u2062former President Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trumps-criminal-hush-money-trial-set-for-march-25\/\" title=\"Trump's hush money trial scheduled for March 25\">hush money trial<\/a>. Over \u2063half were excused due to impartiality\u200c issues. The first day concluded with 32 potential jurors \u200bleft for the \u200chistoric trial. Jury selection will continue, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/npr-admits-major-error-after-claiming-hunter-biden-laptop-reports-discredited\/\" title=\"NPR Admits Major Error After Claiming Hunter Biden Laptop Reports \u2018Discredited\u2019\">addressing questions<\/a> to determine the\u200b final 12\u200d jurors. Trump&#8217;s \u2062presence is required daily as the trial progresses until the end of May.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York<\/a> judge vetted nearly a hundred <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rittenhouse-judge-warns-jurors-against-trusting-media-vast-amount-of-reporting-sloppy-deliberately-biased\/\" title=\"Rittenhouse Judge Warns Jurors Against Trusting Media: \u2018Vast Amount\u2019 Of Reporting \u2018Sloppy,\u2019 \u2018Deliberately Biased\u2019\">prospective jurors<\/a> in former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s hush money trial on Monday, but more than half of them were excused because they said they lacked impartiality.<\/p>\n<p>The first day of the first-ever criminal trial of a former president ended with 32 prospective jurors left as Judge Juan Merchan, defense attorneys, and prosecutors continued the process of whittling down a pool of randomly selected Manhattan-area residents to serve on a 12-seat bench.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who has charged the former president with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/are-the-charges-brought-against-the-trump-organizations-cfo-part-of-a-witch-hunt-experts-weigh-in\/\" title=\"Are The Charges Brought Against The Trump Organization\u2019s CFO Part Of A Witch Hunt? Experts Weigh In\">falsifying business records<\/a> after his 2016 election, were both present, according to a pool of six reporters inside the courtroom. Trump\u2019s presence is required every day for the trial, which is expected to last roughly until the end of May.<\/p>\n<p>The prospective jurors in the case underwent an initial questioning phase that will extend into Tuesday that involves them answering a set of predetermined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycourts.gov\/LegacyPDFS\/press\/PDFs\/Letter-re-jury-selection-4-8-24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">questions<\/a>, such as where they read their news, whether they listen to podcasts, and if they support extremist\u00a0groups such as QAnon or antifa.<\/p>\n<p>Merchan first introduced the case to 96 prospective jurors as Trump sat in the courtroom listening. When the judge asked if any felt they could not be a fair juror, more than 50 raised their hand and were excused. Another handful were excused for other reasons, and then those who remained began answering one by one from the questionnaire.<\/p>\n<p>The judge excused a Harlem woman who answered \u201cyes\u201d during the questionnaire session when asked if she had \u201cany strong opinions or firmly held beliefs about former President Donald Trump or the fact that he is a current candidate for president that would interfere with your ability to be a fair and impartial juror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Merchan kept one man, an Upper West Side resident of 23 years, who volunteered that he felt \u201cnobody is above the law, whether it be a former president or a sitting president or a janitor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jury selection could last days or weeks, but the first day underscored the difficulty in finding 12 residents of New York City who lacked strong feelings about the former president and presumptive Republican presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Once prospective jurors have answered the questionnaire, the process becomes tougher as defense attorneys and prosecutors will be able to raise challenges about the prospective jurors who are left and request that the judge dismiss ones they believe are not suited to hear Trump\u2019s case.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday is expected to be largely dedicated to jury selection, while Monday morning was taken up by outstanding pre-trial questions that Merchan had reserved for the first day of the trial.<\/p>\n<p>Merchan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/2966171\/trump-trial-judge-denies-use-access-hollywood-tape-allegations-as-evidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">denied<\/a> prosecutors\u2019 request to use as evidence sexual misconduct allegations against Trump that surfaced in the aftermath of the infamous Access Hollywood tape in 2016. The judge also reiterated that he would not permit prosecutors to use the actual tape, in which Trump made a lewd remark about women, but said he would allow them to use words from the tape and other details about it.<\/p>\n<p>Merchan also ruled that evidence that the <em>National Enquirer<\/em> ran positive stories about Trump to help his 2016 campaign could be used as evidence, despite objections from Trump\u2019s attorney that they \u201cwould do nothing but confuse the jury about the actual crime charged,\u201d according to the <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, Merchan scheduled a hearing for next week to hear arguments from prosecutors that Trump violated a gag order Merchan imposed on him and that the former president should be sanctioned with contempt and fines. They cited a social media post in which Trump called expected witness Michael Cohen his \u201cSleazeBag former attorney.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The gag order restricts Trump from speaking about witnesses, prosecutors, and court staff in the case.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump can, however, speak generally about the case, and at the beginning and end of the first day of jury selection, he did just that by blasting it as a politically motivated \u201cpersecution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is about election interference. That\u2019s all it\u2019s about,\u201d Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrumpWarRoom\/status\/1779978865701523526\/video\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the hush money trial of former President Donald Trump, a New York judge screened about a hundred potential jurors on Monday. However, over half were dismissed due to impartiality issues. The day concluded with Judge Juan having 32 prospective jurors remaining for the historic criminal trial of a former president<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":2221806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24106764885748-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2221805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24106764885748-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2221805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2221806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}