Mod: Apparently the Judge has concluded that jury intimidation is a Trump legal tactic. Citing Trump’s attacks on ‘hush money’ judge, court keeps E. Jean Carroll rape jury completely anonymous (Law & Crimelink): Some weeks after cloaking a jury in complete anonymity to preside over E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit accusing former President Donald Trump of rape, a federal judge refused to relax that ruling even enough to confidentially share their identities with the attorneys.
Senior U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said he couldn’t issue such an order in “good conscience,” especially in light of
Trump’s continuing attacks on the jurist presiding over the former president’s criminal case.
On March 23, 2023, Kaplan said that he needed to protect jurors’ safety and privacy in light of Trump’s attacks on “courts, judges, various law enforcement officials and other public officials, and even individual jurors in other matters.”
“The likelihood of such difficulties since the
Court made those findings only has increased,”
Kaplan wrote in a six-page ruling on Monday. “That is so in view of
Mr . Trump’ s public statements, characterized by the media as attacks against the
New York State judge presiding over the recently filed
New York State criminal case against
Mr. Trump and the threats reportedly then made, presumably by
Mr. Trump’s supporters, against that judge and members of his family.”
After this remark,
Judge Kaplan footnotes multiple reports about threats pouring into the chambers of
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan in the wake of
Trump’s attacks. In one citation, the
Washington Post noted that
Merchan urged
Trump to refrain from making statements that might incite violence. A
New York Post article reported that
Donald Trump Jr. disseminated an image of
Merchan’s daughter.
Mod: More at the link.
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