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submitted 2 years ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

A full 12-person jury has been sworn in for ex-US President Donald Trump's historic criminal trial in New York City.

"We have our jury," Justice Juan Merchan declared after seven men and five women were selected for the panel. Two jurors had to be excused earlier.

Some thought jury selection might take weeks, but things moved quickly after Mr Trump's team ran out of challenges.

The court could hear opening arguments as soon as Monday.

The trial, the first ever in which a former US president is the defendant, stems from a hush-money payment to a porn star.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 99 points 2 years ago

How soon before all of them get doxxed?

[-] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 84 points 2 years ago

One already has, sort of anyway. Her occupation, city of residence, and employer were shared on TV and she received phone calls right after asking if she was on the jury. Yesterday she asked to be excused out of fear for her safety.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-04-18-24/h_1ff02b074c82044242ec0b3e31d2294a

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago

That was what made me suggest the rest will. And it will happen in his other cases too. There is a Russian hacker army at the ready.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago

Not even Russian hackers, just bored MAGAts who know how to work a few websites. If you know a few key pieces of information, you can find pretty much anyone in the US with relative ease.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

They can't get the names of who is actually on the jury that way. That will take Putin.

[-] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I mean, you really don't need the names, if you can narrow it down to say, every 34 year old black woman working at theaters in Detroit that's that's maybe 20 people tops and likely closer to 5. You could easily harass 5-20 locals on your own and MAGA likes it's flock mentality. If they're MAGA they'll just join in, if they're not they're dangerous antifa terrorists and it's god trumps divine order to ruin their lives.

You don't need Russian hackers when Trump is a Russian asset.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

That will take Putin.

Why do people assume a guy on the opposite side of the world has more leverage than the majority party of the country the case is happening in?

I swear to God, you wouldn't even know the GOP base exists the way people talk

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I assume "a guy on the opposite side of the world" has a huge hacker army at his disposal.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Either Russian software and networking IT folks are a generation ahead of their American peers, our army of hackers (ie, the NSA - the world's largest employer of Mathematician PhDs) is completely asleep at the switch, or the call is coming from inside the house.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

TIL, Putin is Chinese and the Southern District of New York jury pool is a pipeline company.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

So you're saying the NSA could definitely catch Russian hackers hacking into the New York State criminal justice system computers but not catch Chinese hackers hacking into our national infrastructure?

Sounds like the NSA isn't very good at its job.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

So you’re saying the NSA could definitely catch Russian hackers hacking into the New York State criminal justice system

I'm saying that if I had to put money down on who will be outing a member of the Trump jury on my bingo card, I'd put a lot more dollars on "MAGA New Yorker who works at the New York State criminal justice office" than "Guy with a laptop in Moscow".

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

The judge has since specifically prohibited press from disclosing employer information, so it seems les s likely.

Lol, you think the judge issuing a stern warning will stop it? I bet it's Trump's legal team leaking the info.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Wouldn't be the first New York Don to leverage jury intimidation as a court strategy

[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago

Not like some of those press people are on trumps side or anything. sideyes fox,

What the fuck

[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Jessie Waters on Faux News, it should be noted

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Literally talks about it already happening in the article.

[-] Darkard@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago

Won't take long for the media to start slandering them I'm sure.

But in all seriousness, I hope they are being given some measure of protection considering how rabid Trumps supporters get.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

I've got a spot bet on at least three of them being accused of pedophile conspiracies before the case is done

[-] ITypeWithMyDick@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

And will only take one Maga thumper to make a hung jury

[-] CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago

That's what the backups are for. You can have a hung jury but the others can boot one person out. It's happened on a jury my wife was on and then they just brought in the backup and continued as normal

[-] Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, even once deliberation starts if it's clear you're just in there not deliberating in good faith they'll tell the judge and they can boot you and assign an alternate.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

No shit? I didn't know they could do that. I thought backups were only for if someone got sick or something.

[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Might be more than one in there. They ask you all sorts of questions to see if you would be biased, most people would be truthful but there's a certain type of person who doesn't have any qualms about lying and it's the same type that reevers the defendant here.

[-] pelya@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

They were supposed to select jurors based of no allegiance to the defendant.

[-] ITypeWithMyDick@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

In an ideal world, yup

[-] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 27 points 2 years ago

Popcorn engaged

[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

Please keep arms and legs inside at all times

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