Lawyers in Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial on Thursday selected 12 jurors who will assess his guilt or innocence over the coming weeks in a case stemming from a hush-money payment to a porn star.
Lawyers for the defence and the prosecution still must select alternate jurors for the trial, the first ever in which a former U.S. president is the defendant.
Earlier in the day, Justice Juan Merchan excused another juror after prosecutors said he may not have disclosed prior brushes with the law.
Trump’s outsized public presence has created unique problems as lawyers worked to assemble a panel of 12 jurors and six alternates for the trial, which stems from a hush-money payment made to Stormy Daniels shortly before Trump was elected president in 2016.
Roughly half of the 196 prospective jurors screened so far in heavily Democratic Manhattan have been dismissed after saying they could not impartially …
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