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All jurors, including the replacements and an alternate have been revealed in President Trump’s “Hush Money” trial. As Jim Hoft reported, Fox News host Jesse Watters previously revealed seven of the jurors selected to serve in Trump’s “hush money” trial involving porn star Stormy Daniels. Two were dismissed after radical-left Judge Juan Merchan agreed they could not be fair to Trump. But the jury pool is still tilted far to the left and even includes a woman who has called Trump “very selfish” and “self-serving.” Here’s the FULL list of people deciding Trump’s fate. The following information is gathered from...

One prospective juror broke down in tears after revealing her connection to Trump’s former lawyer and convicted perjurer Michael Cohen and former NJ governor Chris Christie. “I feel so nervous and anxious right now,” the juror said as she began to cry. “I don’t want to waste the court’s time,” she said. “I thought I could do this. This is so much more stressful than I thought it was going to be.” The judge excused the juror. Fox News reported: A potential juror who said she had connections to both former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Donald Trump’s former...

Jury selection has concluded in The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump. After a long voir dire, six jurors have been selected: three men and three women. Here’s the brief summary, per media pool reports of the prospective jurors.

As many as three Hillary Clinton donors — including one who also supported US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — are among the prospective jurors for former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann’s trial. Special counsel John Durham’s team objected to putting one Clinton contributor on the panel after the man said he would “strive for impartiality as best I can.” But the prosecution was overruled by Washington, DC, federal Judge Christopher Cooper, who said the man — who works in public policy for Amazon and appeared to be in his 40s — “expressed a high degree of confidence” that he could be...

On her MSNBC show this morning and while discussing the grand jury that Robert Mueller has impaneled in Washington, DC, Joy Reid dismissed as “one of the more absurd arguments I’ve heard” Harvard law prof Alan Dershowitz’s assertion that DC has “an ethnic and racial composition that might be very unfavorable to the Trump Administration.” Paul Butler, a law prof at George Washington University, reinforced Reid: “Alan Dershowitz was my criminal law professor, but I’m here to teach him: Professor Dershowitz, you’re just wrong on that issue.” View the video here.

Enough articles have been written criticizing the result of the Casey Anthony case. I am not here to do that. While cases such as this can be polarizing, they can also be instructive. After following the case, here are some things I thought stood out as significant, but perhaps were not so obvious. CSI Effect For a long time now, we in the law enforcement professions have noted and at times feared, what has come to be known as the CSI Effect. What is this? The false expectation that, as in the television series, conclusive and irrefutable evidence will always...

LONDON - Jury selection began Wednesday for the trial of eight British men accused of planning to bomb airliners bound for the United States and Canada in order to kill hundreds of passengers in a major terrorism plot. Prosecutors allege the group planned a series of coordinated suicide attacks in 2006, hoping to detonate improvised explosives concealed in containers of liquids or gels aboard flights heading from London to the U.S. and Canada. A police inquiry into the purported plot caused major disruption to flights in August 2006 in Britain, and eventually led to tight restrictions on the amount of...

For decades, famed music producer Phil Spector was a recluse, hiding in his hilltop suburban castle. Then, a glamorous actress who starred in a cult movie was shot and killed there, and he could no longer run from the Hollywood spotlight. "'I think I killed somebody,'" Spector was quoted by his chauffeur, Adriano De Souza, who also told a grand jury that Spector had emerged from his mansion holding a gun, with blood on his hands. "What happened sir?" De Souza said he asked. "'I don't know,'" Spector responded. On Monday, the search begins for a jury to decide if...

Selection halted over concern that some say athlete is innocent By Peggy Lowe And Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News September 1, 2004 EAGLE - Prosecutors in the Kobe Bryant rape case briefly stopped secret jury selection Tuesday because they fear potential jurors who think the basketball star is innocent could prejudice others. Taking a 20-minute break in the second day of questioning of Eagle County residents, prosecutor Ingrid Bakke said she wants potential panel members who think the NBA star is not guilty to be questioned alone and behind closed doors. Bakke said many may presume Bryant's innocence, based on...

Many blacks were excluded from Kent County jury pools due to a computer glitch that selected a majority of potential candidates from the suburbs, a new report shows. For months, Kent County officials denied claims of racial imbalance in the selection of jurors. Bur officials Monday conceded that their own review of the system found nearly 75 percent of the county's 454,000 eligible residents were excluded from potential jury pools since spring 2001. "There has been a mistake -- a big mistake," Kent County Chief Circuit Judge George Buth complained Monday. Troubleshooters two weeks ago discovered the error, which went...

SAN DIEGO ---- Jury selection got off to a slow start Tuesday in the trial of the man accused of killing 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, as prosecutors and the defense struggled to find people who had not already made up their minds about the high-profile case. Prospective jurors repeatedly said they followed at least some of the intense media coverage and would have trouble being impartial in the case of a murdered child. "I have opinions based on what I've seen on the news," said one prospective juror before he was dismissed by Superior Court Judge William Mudd. "I don't...