First three jurors chosen to serve on Donald Trump criminal trial
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- Reuters
- Apr 17, 2024
NEW YORK: A group of three jurors was selected on Tuesday to serve on Donald Trump’s hush-money criminal trial, as the selection process continues to choose a 12-member panel which can be fair to the Republican former US president.
Jury selection began on Monday and could last at least a week.
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Trump, the Republican candidate for president in the November 5 election, faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election. Daniels says she had a physical encounter with Trump about a decade beforehand.
Trump has pleaded not guilty and denies an encounter took place. He has called the case, brought by Democratic Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a partisan witch hunt meant to interfere with his campaign to unseat President Joe Biden, a Democrat, in the November 5 election.
The three selected included a man originally from Ireland who enjoys doing “anything outdoorsy” and watches both MSNBC and Fox News, a woman who works as an oncology nurse and enjoys taking her dog to the park, and a corporate lawyer who said he does not follow the news that closely.
