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The assemblage action for erstwhile President Trump’s proceedings centered connected hush money payments to Stormy Daniels officially sewage underway successful New York City connected Monday, pinch lawyers for Trump and nan authorities gathering pinch prospective jurors to determine who will beryllium to perceive nan case.
Judge Juan Merchan is overseeing nan case, successful which Trump has been charged pinch 34 counts of falsifying business records successful nan first grade during his successful 2016 statesmanlike campaign. The twelve yet selected will go nan first Americans ever to beryllium successful judgement of a erstwhile president charged pinch a crime.
The assemblage action process is simple: Each imaginable juror is seated successful nan assemblage container and will beryllium asked to reply 42 questions from a questionnaire that reviews nan individual’s activity history, governmental affiliations and what media they take to watch and perceive to.
The prospective jurors must beryllium Manhattan residents. They are past asked each question, and are instructed to reply "one aft nan other, successful a large clear voice," according to nan court's instructions. They whitethorn perchance beryllium asked further follow-up questions, arsenic needed, depending connected their answer.
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Trump, nan 77-year-old presumptive Republican nominee, goes to tribunal Monday arsenic nan first US ex-president ever to beryllium criminally prosecuted, a seismic infinitesimal for nan United States arsenic campaigns to re-take nan White House. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)
The 42 questions connected nan questionnaire include:
1. A. Without telling america your address, successful what vicinity do you live? For example, Upper East Side, Lower West Side, Inwood, etc.
B. How agelong person you lived there?
C. Are you a autochthonal New Yorker? If not, wherever did you unrecorded previously?
2. A. What do you do for a living?
B. How agelong person you been doing that?
C. If you are retired, please show america what you did earlier you retired.
3. A. Who is your existent employer?
B. How ample is your existent employer?
C. Are you self-employed aliases ain your ain business?
D. Who was your anterior employer?
4. What is your acquisition background? For example, precocious schoolhouse diploma, assemblage degree, postgraduate degree, etc.
5. A. Are you married?
B. Have you ever been married?
C. Do you person immoderate children?
6. A. If you are married, aliases surviving pinch different adult, what does that personification do for a living?
B. If you person big children, what do they do?
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7. A. What do you for illustration to do successful your spare time?
B. Do you person immoderate interests aliases hobbies?
8. A. Do you participate successful immoderate organizations aliases defense groups?
B. Which ones?
9. A. Have you ever served connected a assemblage before? If you did, please show america really agelong agone that was and whether that was successful Criminal Court, Civil Court, aliases Grand Jury.
B. Without telling america nan verdict, please show america whether nan assemblage reached a verdict.
10. Which of nan pursuing people publications, cablegram and aliases web programs, aliases online media specified arsenic websites, blogs, aliases societal media platforms do you visit, read, aliases watch?
The juror is past asked to cheque done various mainstream news platforms specified arsenic Fox News, nan Wall Street Journal, and others. They are besides instructed to cheque done a database of societal media platforms, including Facebook, X, TikTok and others.
11. Do you perceive to aliases watch podcasts? If so, which ones?
12. Do you perceive to talk radio? If so, which programs?
13. Have you, a relative, aliases a adjacent friend ever been nan unfortunate of a crime? If so, please concisely show america what happened?
14. Have you, a relative, aliases a adjacent friend ever been employed by a rule enforcement agency? For example, nan police, FBI, District Attorney's Office, Department of Correction, etc.
15. Have you, a relative, aliases a adjacent friend ever been employed by a federal, state, aliases section government, including but not constricted to nan State of New York?
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16. Have you, a relative, aliases adjacent friend ever been employed successful nan accounting aliases finance field?
17. Have you, a comparative aliases adjacent friend ever had immoderate education, training, aliases activity acquisition successful nan ineligible field, including but not constricted to practicing criminal aliases civilian law?
18. A. Have you, a relative, aliases adjacent friend had immoderate acquisition aliases relationship pinch nan criminal justness system, including a constabulary serviceman aliases different type of rule enforcement agent, which caused you to shape an opinion, whether affirmative aliases negative, astir nan constabulary aliases our criminal justness system?
B. If so, what was that experience?
C. Would that acquisition forestall you from being a adjacent and impartial juror successful this case?
19. Have you, a relative, aliases a adjacent friend ever been accused aliases convicted of committing a crime?
20. Do you, a relative, aliases a adjacent friend person a pending criminal case?
A position of Trump Tower earlier US President Donald Trump departs for Manhattan Criminal Court, to be nan first time of his proceedings for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, successful New York City connected April 15, 2024. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)
21. A. Do you person immoderate political, moral, intellectual, aliases belief beliefs aliases opinions which mightiness forestall you from pursuing nan Court's instructions connected nan rule aliases which mightiness slant your attack to this case?
B. Do you person immoderate political, moral, intelligence aliases belief beliefs aliases opinions that would interfere pinch your expertise to render a verdict successful this criminal case?
22. Do you person a wellness information that mightiness interfere pinch your expertise to beryllium present connected nan appointed days and times aliases different forestall you from serving arsenic a juror?
23. Without telling america nan name(s), do you return immoderate medicine that would forestall you from being capable to ore aliases salary attraction during nan proceedings aliases during nan deliberations?
24. Court proceedings usually extremity astir 4:30 successful nan day though connected uncommon occasions, we mightiness activity beyond that. Would your schedule and responsibilities licence you to activity later if it were perfectly basal to complete that day's work?
25. Do you believe a belief that would forestall you from sitting arsenic a iuror connected immoderate peculiar weekday aliases weeknight?
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26. Can you springiness america an assurance that you will beryllium adjacent and impartial and not guidelines your determination successful this lawsuit upon a bias aliases prejudice successful favour of aliases against a personification who whitethorn look successful this trial, connected relationship of that person's race, color, nationalist origin, ancestry, gender, gender personality aliases expression, religion, belief practice, age, disability, intersexual predisposition aliases governmental views?
27. Can you committedness to defender against allowing stereotypes aliases attitudes astir individuals aliases astir groups of people, referred to arsenic an implicit bias, power your decision?
28. Have you, a relative, aliases a adjacent friend ever worked for immoderate institution aliases statement that is owned aliases tally by Donald Trump aliases anyone successful his family?
29. A. Have you, a relative, aliases a adjacent friend ever worked aliases volunteered for a Trump statesmanlike campaign, nan Trump statesmanlike administration, aliases immoderate different governmental entity affiliated pinch Mr. Trump?
B. Have you ever attended a rally aliases run arena for Donald Trump?
C. Are you signed up for aliases person you ever been signed up for, subscribed to, aliases followed immoderate newsletter aliases email listserv tally by aliases connected behalf of Mr. Trump aliases nan Trump Organization?
D. Do you presently travel Donald Trump connected immoderate societal media tract aliases person you done truthful successful nan past?
E. Have you, a relative, aliases a adjacent friend ever worked aliases volunteered for immoderate anti-Trump group aliases organization?
F. Have you ever attended a rally aliases run arena for immoderate anti-Trump group aliases organization?
G. Are you signed up for aliases person you ever been signed up for, subscribed to, aliases followed immoderate newsletter aliases email listserv tally by aliases connected behalf of immoderate anti-Trump group aliases organization?
H. Do you presently travel immoderate anti-Trump group aliases statement connected immoderate societal media site, aliases person you done truthful successful nan past?
Demonstrators protestation extracurricular of Manhattan Criminal Court arsenic erstwhile US President Donald Trump attends nan first time of his proceedings for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, successful New York City connected April 15, 2024. Trump is successful tribunal Monday arsenic nan first US ex-president ever to beryllium criminally prosecuted. (ADAM GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)
30. Have you ever considered yourself a protagonist of aliases belonged to immoderate of nan following:
- nan QAnon movement
- Proud Boys
- Oathkeepers
- Three Percenters
- Boogaloo Boys
- Antifa
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31. Do you person immoderate beardown opinions aliases firmly held beliefs astir whether a erstwhile president whitethorn beryllium criminally charged successful authorities court?
32. Do you person immoderate feelings of opinions astir really Mr. Trump is being treated successful this case?
33. Can you springiness america your assurance that you will determine this lawsuit solely connected nan grounds you spot and perceive successful this courtroom and nan rule arsenic nan judge gives it?
34. Do you person immoderate beardown opinions aliases firmly held beliefs astir erstwhile President Donald Trump, aliases nan truth that he is simply a existent campaigner for president that would interfere pinch your expertise to beryllium a adjacent and impartial juror?
35. Have you publication (or listened to audio) of immoderate of nan pursuing books aliases podcasts by Michael Cohen aliases Mark Pomerantz? If so, please fto america cognize if what you person heard aliases publication affects your expertise to beryllium a adjacent and impartial juror successful this case.
- Disloyal: A Memoir (2020)
- Mea Culpa (the podcast)
- Revenge (2022)
- People Vs. Donald Trump (2023)
36. The suspect successful this lawsuit has written a number of books. Have you publication (or listened to audio) of anyone aliases much of those books? If so, which ones?
37. Do you person immoderate opinions astir nan ineligible limits governing governmental contributions?
Judge Juan Merchan poses for a image successful his chambers, Thursday, March 14, 2024, successful New York. A twelve Manhattan residents are soon to go nan first Americans ever to beryllium successful judgement of a erstwhile president charged pinch a crime. Jury action is group to commencement Monday successful erstwhile President Donald Trump's hush-money trial. (AP Photos)
38. Can you committedness to group speech thing you whitethorn person heard aliases publication astir this lawsuit and render your verdict based solely connected nan grounds presented successful this courtroom and nan rule arsenic fixed to you by nan judge?
39. Can you springiness america your absolute assurance that you will refrain from discussing this lawsuit pinch anyone successful immoderate mode and from watching, reading, aliases listening to immoderate accounts of this lawsuit during nan pendency of nan trial?
40. Can you guarantee america that you will travel nan judge's instructions connected nan law, including instructions connected nan meaning of reasonable uncertainty and nan presumption of innocence?
41. The United States Constitution provides that a suspect has nary load to present immoderate grounds aliases to attest successful a criminal case. If Mr. Trump chooses not to attest aliases to present immoderate evidence, tin you springiness america your assurance that you will not clasp that against him?
42. Is location immoderate reason, whether it beryllium a bias aliases thing else, that would forestall you from being adjacent and impartial if you are selected arsenic a juror for this case?
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Trump is nan first US ex-president ever to beryllium criminally prosecuted.
Both ineligible teams tin title nan jurors selected for nan case, particularly if they judge a imaginable juror would not beryllium adjacent aliases impartial successful nan case.
