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Today is jury selection, so they'll be asking a lot of potential jurors about all the ways they could be biased or have a conflict of interest.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] Feathercrown 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I'd fail 33. Is it like a mega crime to lie on that questionnaire?

[–] HWK_290 9 points 7 months ago

A question so nice they asked it twice! I'd also fail #38

And the question about bias in an election year. Isn't that kind of the point? He committed the felonies in an effort to secure to 2016 election, so you disregard that because... He might do it again??

[–] youngGoku 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)
  1. Can you give us your assurance that you will decide this case solely on the evidence you see and hear in this courtroom and the law as the iudge gives it?

Yeah haha that's a tough one

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

More than half the jury pool said 'no' to that

[–] Feathercrown 1 points 7 months ago

The defendant's ironclad case when jury nullification walks in the room

Or in this case, whatever the opposite of that is

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I'd guess maybe perjury, but I'm not a lawyer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Thanks for posting the questionnaire. I don't think I'd pass it. I'm not sure anyone I know would pass it. I'd be tempted to answer a lot of those questions in a way the defense wouldn't like.

  1. Do you have any strong opinions or firmly held beliefs about whether a former president may be criminally charged in state court?

I have a strong opinion and firm belief that it is a miscarriage of justice that it has taken this long for Trump to be charged in any court.