Judge Kaplan Tells E. Jean Carroll Jurors to Never Tell They Served on the Jury
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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🗓️ 31 January 2024
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Summary
Before dismissing the jury at the conclusion of the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial and just after they awarded Ms. Carroll $83.3 million for Trump's incessant defamation - Judge Lewis Kaplan told the jurors that he recommends they tell NO ONE that they served on the Trump jury. Although Judge Kaplan's motivation was undoubtedly to protect the jurors against the danger posed by Trump and his supporters, it's institutional insanity to make everyone else alter their lives and their behavior rather than address the source of the danger - Donald Trump.
Trump endangers everyone who is involved in holding him accountable for his crimes and his civil wrongs. This includes witnesses; judges and their staff; prosecutors and their family members; and jurors. Trump is on pretrial release in four felony cases, both state and federal. The law provides that if someone is on release in a felony case, and there is clear and convincing evidence that the defendant poses a danger to even one person in the community, that person should be detained pending trial. Yet instead of doing what the law provides, the institutions of government have decided that every single person involved in the endeavor of holding Trump accountable should alter their lives rather than neutralize the threat by detaining Trump pending trial. Glenn says let's hope the institutions of government - change course rather than continue to allow Trump to endanger jurors, witnesses, judges, and prosecutors.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and MS NBC analyst Glenn Kirchner. Judge Lewis Kaplan said something to the jury at the end of the e-gen-Carrell trial that caused a stir. |
| 0:21.0 | Here's Glenn. |
| 0:22.0 | So friends, I wanted to let the e-gen-Carrell jury verdict |
| 0:37.2 | 83.3 million dollars in damages awarded to E. Gene Carroll for Donald Trump's relentless unabated defamation of Miss Carroll. I wanted to let that jury verdict sink in for a few days. |
| 0:47.0 | Before turning my attention to something else, something troubling, something that the presiding Judge Lewis Kaplan said to the jurors |
| 0:57.6 | after they had completed their jury service right before he dismissed them. |
| 1:03.0 | Let's start with the new reporting. |
| 1:06.0 | This from the business insider headline, |
| 1:09.0 | Judge in Trump defamation trial |
| 1:12.0 | advises jurors to never disclose that you were on this jury. |
| 1:18.8 | And that article begins, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan capped off an at times surreal day in federal court with one |
| 1:28.2 | final piece of advice for jurors who had just found that former President Donald Trump must pay $83.3 million in damages to |
| 1:38.4 | E. Jean Carroll. |
| 1:40.6 | This from Judge Kaplan, quote, |
| 1:43.0 | My advice to you is that you never disclose that you are on this jury |
| 1:48.0 | and I won't say anything more about it. |
| 1:51.0 | Close quote. Judge Kaplan said after the verdict was read. |
| 1:57.0 | So friends, why do I find that instruction, that comment, that admonition, that warning that Judge Kaplan gave to the jurors so deeply troubling. |
| 2:11.6 | First of all, it's not a criticism of Judge Kaplan. |
| 2:15.0 | He is a fine, honorable, well-regarded jurist. |
| 2:21.1 | And you know what he was doing there? He was trying to protect those jurors. |
| 2:26.6 | He was trying to keep them out of harm's way by recommending that they never tell anybody, that they served as jurors. |
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