Judge Alerts Trump, Manhattan DA of Possible Jury Confidentiality Breach

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The judge didnโ€™t say the court confirmed a breach.

New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan on June 7 alerted counsel for former President Donald Trump and the Manhattan District Attorney of a potential juror confidentiality breach.

โ€œToday, the Court became aware of a comment that was posted on the Unified Court Systemโ€™s public Facebook page and which I now bring to your attention,โ€ Justice Merchan wrote in a letter.

โ€œIn the comment, the user, โ€˜Michael Anderson,โ€™ states: โ€˜My cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted  Thank you folks for all your hard work!!!!โ€™โ€

The post was made on May 29, the day the jury began deliberations, one day before the guilty verdict on May 30.

The comment had been made on a post unrelated to Justice Merchanโ€™s courtroom, for the appellate division in the New York Supreme Court.

The comment, and others made by the user on the New York Courts Facebook page, have since been deleted. They came from an account describing itself as a โ€œprofessional [expletive] poster,โ€ raising questions about the validity of the comment.

After Justice Merchanโ€™s letter was published, the Facebook post saw an influx of comments about the Trump trial.

Justice Merchan did not state that the court was able to confirm that the social media user was truly in contact with a juror.

The alert is expected to raise questions of whether jurors discussed the case against the judgeโ€™s strict instructions, and the degree to which they may have been influenced or researched the case outside the courtroom.

The defense may question the partiality of the jury, referencing their previous motion for a change of venue, given that the post suggests the jury had been about their verdict prior to reviewing evidence and a dayโ€™s deliberation.

Former U.S. Attorney Brett Tolman commented on social media that, if true, it may go beyond a mistrial and end the case because of double jeopardy.

Sentencing

On May 30, a jury of 12 returned a guilty verdict for former President Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.

Byย Catherine Yang

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