Judge Merchan's Unusual Jury Selection Process

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🗓️ 19 April 2024

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The jury has been selected in a New York courtroom to judge the guilt or innocence of a former president of the United States. This is an important step in the direction of fulfilling the long-dormant American promise that no one is above the law. Glenn does a deep dive into several jury issues, including Judge Juan Merchan's unusual process of letting jurors self-identify as unable to be fair and dismissing them with no follow-up questions. And Glenn discusses the fact that two of the jurors are attorneys. He says this is a good thing because attorneys know the law and they can be a big asset in making sure all jurists listen to the facts and follow the judges instructions.

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0:00.0	It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and MS NBC analyst Glenn Kirchner. The jury has been selected in Donald Trump's first criminal trial in New York.
0:20.0	Here's Glenn with an update.
0:22.0	So friends, jury selection in Donald Trump's first criminal trial, the first of four, is moving along at a pretty good clip. Now you may have heard that Judge
0:35.0	Mersham, the presiding judge, is going to sit in trial on Mondays and Tuesdays and
0:39.8	Thursdays and Fridays. So that means on Wednesdays we're going to do a deep dive.
0:45.7	You know, we're going to take a breath and we're going to try to talk about what's gone on
0:50.4	on Monday and Tuesday. What we project might go on on Thursday and Friday, and we will
0:57.4	take on a legal issue that has perhaps bubbled up that we haven't really had time to do a deep dive into. So today I want to take
1:07.7	on three questions concerning jury selection. First is a question that I have been asked several times in recent days and
1:16.2	that is how is it that when Judge Mersharn brought the first 96 jurors in he asked them one question who here thinks they can't be fair
1:26.0	something like 50 hands went up and those people were excused they weren't asked any follow-up questions. Is that
1:35.8	usual? Is that the way juries are ordinarily selected? The answer is no. It's
1:40.6	not usual. It's unorthodox unorthodox in fact for this 30 year prosecutor it's
1:46.2	unprecedented I've never seen jury selection start like that we're going to talk
1:50.8	about why that is the second thing I want to take on is who are these jurors who have been qualified?
1:58.0	Where do they come from? What do they do and what does it kind of portend moving forward? What might this jury look like?
2:07.0	And then friends, the last issue I want to take up is whether prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys like to have lawyers as jurors.
2:18.0	And the answer to this one may surprise you. The reason we're going to talk about this and do a little bit of a deep dive
2:25.2	into that topic is because two of the jurors who have thus far been qualified are our lawyers.
2:33.8	But first, let's take up the jury selection process
2:37.6	and how it was really unusual.
2:40.4	So what Judge Mershaun decided to do was bring the 96 jurors, that's Wave 1, they will be coming in in waves.
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