Seven jurors were sworn in on Tuesday, but with the excusal of two of them, lawyers now need to pick 13 others to serve on the panel that will decide the first-ever criminal case against a former US president.
57 out of the second round of 96 potential jurors were excused almost immediately after selection began.An additional nine said they couldn’t serve for some other reason, which they were not asked to state. Inside the court, there’s broad acknowledgement 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 second, a female nurse, "conveyed that after sleeping on it overnight she had concerns about her ability to be fair and impartial in this case," according to the judge.Prosecutors on Thursday also asked Merchan to sanction Trump over seven more social media posts they say violate a gag order that bars Trump from attacking witnesses.Merchan had already scheduled a hearing for next week on the prosecution’s request for contempt sanctions over Trump’s posts.
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