FILE – Former President Donald Trump sits in Manhattan criminal court with his legal team in New York, April 15, 2024. (Jabin Botsford/Pool Photo via AP)
The process of picking a jury is a critical phase of any criminal trial but especially so when the defendant is a former president and the presumptive Republican nominee.
Prospective jurors have been grilled on their social media posts, personal lives and political views as the lawyers and judge search for biases that would prevent them from being impartial. Inside the court, there’s broad acknowledgment of the futility in trying to find jurors without knowledge of Trump, with
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