Cevallos on Trump’s Hush Money Trial: This Is a Situation Where the Baseline Is, Everybody Knows the Defendant and Have an Opinion About Him

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CEVALLOS: "He seated a jury in less than five days. They did not work on Wednesday and one day was a loss, it was mostly oral argument on motions. They scratch the surface and this was a jury selected in one of arguably the four most important criminal cases in American history. This is one of them. The first one, in a jurisdiction where it would be really difficult to pick jurors, at least everybody thought, they did it in three days and they were finished before the end of the day on Friday because they even had more arguments before the jurors were excused. This is amazing and in fact, Donald Trump’s team is arguing that this was too fast. Normally, when you have jury selection, if you have one out of 100 jurors that says actually I know the defendant and have a strong feeling about him, normally they are out. Technically you could keep them if they could be unbiased, but counsel will say and a judge will agree let’s just be safe and let him go home. We have plenty of people that do not know the defendant. This is a situation where the baseline was not only everybody knew the defendant, but everybody had opinions about the defendant. This was a totally different process. It was baked in. You had to find people who would self select and admit, or be honest that they could be fair and impartial, or that they couldn’t be."