Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro,' a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MSNBC, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.
After two days of jury selection in his first criminal trial, Donald Trump is expressing some confusion about the selection process. He complained Wednesday on Truth Social that he thought that 'STRIKES were supposed to be 'unlimited' when we were picking our jury? I was then told we only had 10, not nearly enough when we were purposely given the 2nd Worst Venue in the Country.
Second, the 'only 10' complaint is about a straightforward application of the law, which gives each side 10 of what are called peremptory strikes in prosecutions for 'E'-level felonies, like the falsifying business records charges Trump is fighting . Each side also gets two such strikes for alternate jurors on top of the regular 12-person jury. Both sides can use peremptory strikes to cut potential jurors without giving a reason .
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