As Trump’s hush money case goes to trial, how does jury selection work?
The first criminal trial of a former US president will begin with jury selection on Monday.
The hush money case surrounds 34 charges of business fraud following allegations that Donald Trump instructed staff that hush money payments be logged as legal expenses.
Steve Duffy at Trial Behavior Consulting tells The Independent that because of the demographics of Manhattan, where the trial is taking place, the jury is likely to be left of centre as well as fairly well off and more educated than the country at large.
“One thing to understand, and this is true about a lot of things about the jury system, is that it’s different everywhere,” he says, noting that judges have a lot of discretion on how to conduct the process. “Every state, really every county has different specific procedures for just about everything.”
Prospective jurors receive summons
The process begins with prospective jurors receiving a summons in the mail saying they
