Two jurors booted from Trump trial, including NYC nurse who said she couldn’t be ‘unbiased,’ man accused of lying about criminal past
NY Post
Two of the jurors seated in Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial earlier this week were dismissed Thursday — including a Manhattan nurse who said she couldn’t be “fair and unbiased.”
The former president was back in Manhattan Supreme Court after a break Wednesday as Justice Juan Merchan informed his lawyers and prosecutors that the woman, seated as Juror No. 2, raised questions about her ability to serve.
“Yesterday alone, I had friends, colleagues, and family push things to my phone, questioning my identity as a juror. I don’t think at this point I can be fair and unbiased,” the Upper East Side woman, an oncology nurse at Memorial Sloan Kettering, told the court.
The woman said she “definitely has concerns now” after her friends, family and work colleagues were able to link her to the trial through news reports that included certain biographical information.
Merchan let the woman go before chiding the media and directing them to no longer report jurors’ current or former employers.
“We just lost what probably would’ve been a very good juror for this case and the first thing she was intimidated by the press,” the judge said. “It’s become a problem.”
