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Judge Juan Merchan, who oversaw former President Donald Trump’s business records trial, warned Trump’s attorney, Todd Blanche, and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass of a comment from someone claiming to be the cousin of one of the jurors.
“Today, the Court became aware of a comment that was posted on the Unified Court System’s public Facebook page and which I now bring to your attention,” Merchan wrote in his letter. Merchan added that a Facebook user with the name Michael Anderson left a comment stating, “My cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted.”ὄ Justice MERCHAN has notified the parties in Trump's case that a stray comment was posted on the NY court system's Facebook page on May 29, a day before Trump's conviction.
While Merchan added in his letter that the comment was able to be seen on the Facebook page of the New York State Unified Court System, the post, “a defendant can move to vacate a verdict on the basis of juror misconduct if and only if he can prove, by a preponderance of the evidence,” that there was misconduct, and that the misconduct “created a substantial risk of prejudice,” according toNolte: Post-Conviction Polls Show Trump Tied in VA, Up in AZ, NVReport: 28-Year-Old Transgender Who Killed...
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