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Having an Attorney on a jury makes no sense. Especially having two. This is just plain crazy. To have not one but two lawyers serving as jurists? It’s no longer a jury of 12, but two.
The problem with having a lawyer on the jury is that they can be a very strong voice and influence the rest of the panel. And so, if they are … strong to one side or the other, then that can swap everybody else on the panel.
Worse yet, what if one is pro Trump and the other is anti Trump? They would be conducting their own trial during deliberations. Seven New Yorkers were picked this week to serve as jurors.
Of those seven, one is a corporate attorney who lives in Chelsea and grew up in Oregon, while another juror is a civil litigator who lives in the Upper East Side and is originally from North Carolina.
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