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Will New York Jury Give Trump a Fair Shake?
Will New York Jury Give Trump a Fair Shake?
ADVERTISEMENTThe former president, like all Americans, is owed an ‘impartial jury.’
By: A.R. Hoffman, NY Sun, , April 1, 2023:
The trial that ensues from the indictment sought by District Attorney Alvin Bragg and handed up by a Manhattan-based grand jury will be a homecoming of sorts for President Trump, who was born at Jamaica Hospital, Queens.
It was the novelist Thomas Wolfe who popularized the phrase “you can’t go home again.” He used it as the title of his posthumously published classic, but in Mr. Trump’s case a better rendering might be that you are likely to find not a welcome mat but an unfriendly jury eager to convict. It raises a question both practical and constitutional: Can the former president get a fair trial in his hometown?
A longtime lawyer, Harvey Silverglate, thinks not, telling the Sun that the indictment is a “bad idea” and that at least one member of the jury will engage in “jury nullification,” when a not-guilty verdict is given regardless of guilt or innocence. He predicts that prospective jurors “won’t be honest during voir dire, or the process of jury selection.” He adds that “people love to get on a high-profile jury.”
ADVERTISEMENTMr. Silverglate observed that were he representing Mr. Trump, he would request a “sequestered jury,” meaning one where the jurors are prohibited from gaining access to press reports during the course of the trial, even when they are off-duty. He muses that Mr. Trump’s team would love to hold the trial at “Tallahassee or Ames,” but that the case will likely end in a hung jury.
The Constitution’s Sixth Amendment promises that “in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.” The trial’s location is determined by the “nature and cause of the accusation.”
If an alleged crime spanned a range of jurisdictions, the law allows that “any district in which such offense was begun, continued, or completed” is suitable for trial. This flexibility allows for “forum shopping,” or the effort to find the most hospitable terrain for a trial. Jury consultants have become de rigueur at high-profile trials, or those with deep-pocketed defendants.
The right to an “impartial jury” is also linked to the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the 14th Amendment.The Supreme Court explains that impartiality requires the selection of a jury from “a representative cross section of the community” in which the trial is held. The jurors selected must be able to decide the case based on only the evidence presented.
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