initial trial because you had the desire for a jury trial, but you ended up with a bench trial, meaning a judge was the soul decider of your fate what happened? i m going to actually feel the question about what happened at the trial. and so one of the issues is that people, when they come into the legal system, they re given advice by their attorneys about whether to take a bench trial or a jury trial. and because the witnesses in the case were so so obviously bad, a lot of attorneys would say, look, there s these gang members, they are bad. this, judge, i know from my practice, this judge used to be a public defender like the one in this case. and so they re like yeah, a bench trial makes sense. and when you re young and you re teenager in your 20s and you re really reliant upon the things that the attorney said& their advice because they re the ones who opt into the system. what was that like when you learn that would be a judge and
this point, the scariest thing about the donald trump presidential campaign is a weird sense of discipline that we re seeing on the part of this new staff that has that has come out we saw with the policy on abortion that was recently that he recently announced. but again, i go back to that extremist base that s still exists irrespective of what donald trump says on ukraine or on voting without one tempt you for a second. let s go to the next. and by the way, i think it s really interesting here is the second quote it is cold there is no question. it is cold but i d rather be a little cold than sweaty. and really, those are the choices we had max who said that wasn t a senator, mitch mcconnell be house speaker, mike johnson, or c judge, juan merchan asked by a menopausal,
the whole ball game changed for jury selection when social media really became prevalent, 2007 or eight or so, i remember because i was trying cases that at first we as prosecutors weren t sure what are we allowed to look at this? can we look at someone s facebook profile because there s so much valuable information on their and the way it s played out now is it is allowed. it is very commonly done, but you can only look at what s publicly available. so for example, you can t send someone a friend requests or pretend to be somebody else and ask for access. you cannot contact that person. but anything that they post up in a publicly the available social media profile is fair game and you better bet both of these sides are scrutinizing social media. in fact, we know that they weren t because they managed to get certain jurors removed because things they said in court didn t exactly match up with their social media. so great question. thanks for that. and the jurors are not required
your question there and then we ll reach out to have you call in as the trial unfolds. let s get to our first color. tonight. we got marcus from batavia, illinois. hey, marcus, what s your question? episodically, if the trial begins in earnest, but the jurors and ultimate began to feel intimidated. an exit what happens next? that s a really good question. i want to bring in android consult richard gabriel back in to help answer that for you. this is the big question that every attorney has and they re thinking about right? it s a big challenge. obviously, the judge, i think he s going to try to protect them as much as possible. he s already made them anonymous, but that being said, people find out about them being on the trial. so if they do feel intimidated, i think there s gonna be admonishments to the press is going to be a management is to both sides. but in the most extreme circumstance, i guess he can talk about sequestration and actually say, let s let s protect these juro
actually is an option, especially for the duration of the trial and we don t know at this point that has not indicated that he s going to sequester as far as we know right now, these jurors go home at the end of the night the next car it s go to kyle. kyle from ontario, canada. hey, kyle, with your question and if not, how were the lawyers able to get into their accounts especially if they are private? and along the same lines, what would prevent a juror from purposely deleting any okay. so incriminating posts. that s a really important question with let s let s talk about that. if we, if we can, that s lisa from i think napa, idaho. was they asked this question. let me go to lie on this because i think it is really interesting to think about the access to the jurors information. of course, nobody wants us to happen. they want anonymity to be able to not have intimidation and beyond what s your reaction so these are that s a. great question. thank you for asking it.