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In Trump Trial, Jury Selection Is Part Politics

2024/4/18
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Galen Druk: 本期播客讨论了特朗普曼哈顿刑事审判的陪审团选择过程，以及如何从潜在陪审员的个人背景和人口统计数据中了解他们对特朗普及其刑事诉讼的看法。讨论涉及民调数据、陪审员选择标准、潜在陪审员的政治倾向、以及如何确保审判结果的公正性和公众信任度。 Jessica Roth: 在陪审团选择过程中，律师会审查潜在陪审员的社交媒体帖子，并就其过往言论与其对质，以评估其公平公正性。法官会根据潜在陪审员的陈述以及律师的质询来决定是否将其排除。法官在审判开始时直接免除那些自认为无法做到公平公正的潜在陪审员的做法比较罕见。律师可以通过公开信息（如选民登记和政治捐款）来推断潜在陪审员的政治倾向，但这种推断并非完全准确。陪审员最终需要判断特朗普是否伪造商业记录，以及其伪造行为是否意图掩盖其他犯罪行为，这需要对证据进行仔细权衡和对被告意图的判断。 Valerie Hans: 陪审团应该由来自该社区、声称能够公平公正的人组成，其人口统计特征可能与曼哈顿整体人口统计特征不同。法律上，陪审团不必完全反映曼哈顿或美国整体的人口构成，但陪审团的候选人必须反映曼哈顿的人口构成。证据的模糊性以及对法律公平性的质疑，是导致陪审团无法达成一致意见的主要因素。参与陪审团审判的人们对法院的评价更高，更有可能参与投票，这体现了陪审制度的积极作用。

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The jury selection process is still underway in former President Donald Trump's Manhattan criminal trial. In order to get on the jury, Manhattanites responded to a questionnaire with 42 questions ranging from whether they belong to QAnon or Antifa to what podcasts they listen to. The attorneys on both sides scrutinized their social media posts, asked them about their opinions of Trump, and had the opportunity to ask they be removed from consideration.

This is all with the goal of impaneling an unbiased jury. It’s one of the most important parts of the process and also gets at the heart of a lot of what we talk about on the 538 Politics podcast. Based on a person’s own biography and demography, how do they feel about the former president and his criminal prosecution?

In this installment of the podcast, Galen speaks with law professors Jessica Roth and Valerie Hans about the challenges of jury selection and what lack of bias we can expect from jurors in such a unique trial.

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