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.
Heading into Thursday, there were already seven jurors on Donald Trump’s first criminal jury in New York. In the morning, the natural question was: How long will it take to get the full 12 jurors ? But the day’s events quickly raised different questions, after two of those seven jurors were excused. One of them said they couldn’t be fair, having raised concerns about being identified.
With Trump's danger hovering over the proceedings, the anonymity concerns underscore the difficulty of not only picking a good jury in this historic case but of keeping that jury together. That, in turn, raises the importance of not only gathering 12 solid jurors but their alternates, as well. Merchan has indicated he wants six alternates.
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