(18 Apr 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
POOL
New York – 18 April 2024
1. Trump leaving court
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York- 18 April 2024
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Arthur Aidala, Defense Attorney:
"Basically what’s going on right now is the 500 or so people who have been called for jury duty. About 100 of them come into the courtroom. The judge is asking them very quickly, you know, is anyone. Does everyone here know who everyone is? Do you know what case this is? And explain that to them. And then he says, you know, is there any reason you can’t sit on this case? And typically, a judge would go through it one by one here. If you raise your hand, you’re dismissed. That is not common. That’s not the way it’s normally done."
POOL
New York – 18 April 2024
3. STILL Trump in court
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York- 18 April 2024
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Arthur Aidala, Defense Attorney:
"Because it’s at the lowest level, felony. Each side only gets ten strikes. Normally, in a regular felony, A, B, you get 20 strikes. So it moves rather quickly because there’s only so many people you could strike off. I mean, the judge is asking for a lot more alternates. Normally it’s 12 jurors and two alternates. Here it’s 12 jurors at six alternates. But I guess the judge doesn’t want to take the risk of having a mistrial if you lose the jury."
POOL
New York – 18 April 2024
5. STILL Trump in court
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York- 18 April 2024
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Arthur Aidala, Defense Attorney:
"President Trump, you know, will have the ability to talk to his lawyers. I like this guy. I don’t like that person. And, besides that, he kind of just sits there and listens and watches you read potential jurors body language. You listen to the words that come out of their mouth. You listen to the things that they tell the judge when the judge is speaking to them, and you have someone behind them googling their name and looking at their Facebook page, their Twitter handle and all that stuff and seeing what do they do, what bands do they like, what do they do for their birthday, where they go on vacation and you do your best to narrow it down and saying, this is a juror I want to talk to, I want to relate with. And I think, will be someone who will be open minded enough to take on our point of view."
POOL
New York – 18 April 2024
6. STILL Trump in court
STORYLINE:
Jury selection in Donald Trump’s hush money trial has encountered new setbacks as two seated jurors were excused — one for backtracking on whether she could be impartial and the other over concerns about whether he was truthful about whether he had ever been accused or convicted of a crime.
Attorneys now need to pick 13 more jurors to serve on the panel that will decide the first-ever criminal case against a former U.S. president.
Famed defense attorney Arthur Aidala, said that the jury selection for this Trump trial is unusual.
"The judge is asking them very quickly, you know, is anyone. Does everyone here know who everyone is? Do you know what case this is? And explain that to them." said Aidala. "Then he says, you know, is there any reason you can’t sit on this case? And typically, a judge would go through it one by one here. If you raise your hand, you’re dismissed. That is not common. That’s not the way it’s normally done."
Aidala said the judge is also trying to get more alternates than in a normal trial.
"Normally it’s 12 jurors and two alternates. Here it’s 12 jurors at six alternates. But I guess the judge doesn’t want to take the risk of having a mistrial if you lose the jury," said Aidala.
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