Judge Merchan’s questions to the jurors are outrageous, but that’s my opinion. Let me know what you think.
Judge Merchan wants to know where the jurors live, and you can definitely find out a lot by knowing that. The Judge wants to know if a juror watches Newsmax, reads Truth Social, or reads WaPo, and they want to know if the juror supports QAnon, Oathkeepers, Proud Boys, etc. We’re sure the prosecution will jump on any Proud Boys or QAnons – not.
Merchan’s questions include asking them if they can be unbiased. I can answer that for them, and the answer is “no.”
Just guessing here but I don’t think they will let a Republican get on the jury.
Letter Re Jury Selection 4-8-24 by M Dowling
Letter-re-jury-selection-4-8-24
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Merchan overlooks a major factor in this circus, which starts on Monday. The dudes at ispeakfortrump com are turning this into a circus. You can get rich and famous by being on this jury and voting to acquit Trump. Being selected for this jury could be a financial bonanza for any juror who bucks the obvious “get Trump ” objective of Bragg and his pet judge and expects to be massively rewarded by voting to acquit Trump regardless of the evidence. Such a juror can look forward to many interviews on why he or she held out and voted to acquit. It doesn’t need to be a Trump supporter or MAGA, just a person who knows they will be rewarded for this vote to acquit. I could see such a juror complaining about being threatened and harassed and a Supporter giving her a luxury home in Florida or paying for interviews. Not bribes are just rewards, and if I had anything to do with this case, I would make it very clear to the jury that a vote to acquit is not only your patriotic duty but you will be personally rewarded for being a patriot. Want Trump to win? Then go to ispeakfortrump com and they will provide you with the tools to send Get Rich and Famous letters to every email address in NYC. It will be a blast to turn this trial into a circus.
I have had the misfortune to serve on several juries. I do not recall having been asked questions like these by any judge nor lawyer although the cases were both federal and state. All were felonies involving penalties ranging upwards of decades and thousands in fines were involved yet questions like these were never put to me. I wonder if others have had the same experience.
It does seem to me the judge is engage in jury shopping.
Questions 26, 27 and 33 contradict many of the other questions.
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26 asks if you will be impartial and not judge a person based on their race , religion or POLITICAL views
27 asks if you can promise that stereotypes about certain people will not affect your opinion
but a dozen other questions are asking ( indirectly) what your political views are ( by asking what you read, watch or listen to ) , clearly indicating judge Merchan is judging YOU by your political views and the stereotypes attached to your political views ( meaning if your news sources are right leaning Judge Merchan has a bad opinion of you, he is neither impartial nor is he rejecting stereotypes about conservatives )
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33 asks if you will judge based on evidence only.
Again Judge Merchan – with his many questions to figure out if you lean right – is doing the opposite of what he asks them to do.
The fact a person watches or listen to right leaning news source is not evidence the person cannot be impartial or fair. Judge Merchan evaluates you not based on fact but based on stereotypes about people who lean right.
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Here is a fact for Judge Merchan who himself is pro-democrat; his own daughter raised million of dollars for the Democrat party.
That is not a stereotype, that is a fact.
Judge Merchan would fail his own questionaire.
He wants to politicize the trial before the trial even begins by selectively selecting the jury members to be hopefully all democrat voters on the jury. That’s Illegal. Oops!.
You DAs demand impartiality from jurors while culling the pool.