Posted on 10/04/2023 2:31:09 PM PDT by bitt
Numerous defense attorneys representing January 6 defendants are perplexed in discovering that potential jurors are being recalled or “recycled.”
On Sept. 5, a day after Labor Day, defense attorneys discovered their potential jury pool consisted of jurors who were excused the week before.
“I have never seen this in all my years of practicing law.” defense attorney Steven Metcalf fumed while exiting the federal courthouse after jury selection of Zachary Alam’s trial.”Are there any jurors left in DC? What is going on here?”
The Gateway Pundit sat as the lone observer in the courtroom for nearly the entire duration of Alam’s 8-day trial and spent hours talking with Metcalf about this peculiar jury selection.
Repeatedly throughout Alam’s jury selection, Metcalf asked each potential juror that he was allowed to vet whether they recognized anyone else in the room.
By day 2, dozens of the potential jurors answered in the affirmative, referencing other individuals they convened with at the federal courthouse just a week prior when they were struck down for jury duty in other J6 cases.
Metcalf’s line of questioning confirming jurors are being “recycled” became a running joke in the courtroom.
“Do recognize anyone in this room,” Metcalf a woman who was later seated on the jury.
“Yes, I saw some of the people here last week when I was called for jury selection in another case,” she replied.
Conspicuously, one potential juror after another took the stand with the same story.
As Metcalf spoke to the approximate twentieth potential juror who confirmed they were at jury selection the week prior for another J6 trial, Judge Dabney Friedrich visibly restrained from bursting into laughter.
Neither Friedrich, the Marshalls nor the prosecutors could keep a straight face.
Jury selection is a big mystery amongst a litany of shocking aberrations of the application of the law in J6 trials.
Getting called for jury duty is a simple luck of the draw. Many Americans go through their lives never being summoned or answering a jury duty summons. Few are called repeatedly and actually answer. But for some reason, many in Washington DC are reporting for jury duty for two different trials two weeks in a row.
A computer randomly picks prospective jurors from the jury pool during a “Detailed Randomization Procedure,” according to the Jury Selection Plan for the United States District Court For the District of Columbia.
The alleged random selection process makes it unlikely that someone will get summoned to serve twice, comparable to winning the lottery multiple times.
Once an individual reports for service, their name is pulled from the jury pool for at least the next 12 months, even if the individual does not get placed on a jury.
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My boss was late the first day of jury duty because of a flat tire (she lived 45 minutes away from the courthouse and there are no taxis on the long stretch between the two cities). The judge made her go into his chambers and then tore into her for her disrespect.
It all depends on the judge.
Why aren’t the jurors raising concerns about multiple jury duty? Wouldn’t there be financial, business, or personal issues facing these jurors? Jury duty doesn’t pay well.
Quite curious that concerns are not being raised from the jurors themselves.
Fake juries.
“ So this is confusing to me.”
They are packing the jury. Its a crime. But there is no one to prosecute the prosecuting criminals.
Interesting. My husband served on a grand jury recently. He finished his week but was told he may be needed in the future fir the remaining month so he was “on call”.
This whole thing stinks.If DJT wins he should pardon ever damn defendant....on Day 1.
kabuki theater
A communist coup, that’s what’s going on.
Been going on quietly for some time but they seem to be going for broke now.
It raises the question, are they being compensated in other ways?
Off the books, under the table, so to speak.
Does anyone know if the majority of these jurors are government employed? Being DC there has to be a high chance.
The bureaucracy hates Trump... it wouldn’t take much though to imagine some manager is placing certain employees into these juries.
Probably using the same leftist moron slugs over and over again because they are more than willing to convict based on this government’s lies-they-call-evidence.
“they have to in essence claim the bank assessors were accessories to a fraud”
Or rather, they have to claim that the banks defrauded themselves.
That is another good question.
There just aren’t enough real investigative journalists to handle the mountains of corruption we’re facing.
I was called for jury duty several times. My employer would pay our salary/wages if we just signed over the check we were given for jury duty.
Employers do that do be sure you actually had to go that day. Most jury commissioners have a call in system in the morning and they waive the jurors off for the day unless voir dire is on the schedule. Typically, employees treat that as a day off. Exchanging pay for jury duty checks is how HR people recommend this be regulated since a person waived off for the day is not entitled to jury pay and therefore has no check to exchange.
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