Picking the right jurors could “win or lose” Donald Trump his hush money criminal trial, legal experts told The Post as attorneys geared up to resume the painstaking selection process Thursday.
The high-stakes process of selecting 12 jurors and six alternates to decide the fate of the former president got underway this week in Manhattan Supreme Court with the first seven panelists chosen on Tuesday.
“Jury selection is where you can win or lose a trial,” said Michael Bachner, a longtime criminal defense attorney, adding that lawyers on each sides will be pulling out all the stops to choose a panel they believe will be favorable to their case.
Both prosecutors and lawyers for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee will have hired jury consultants to comb through prospective jurors’ social media accounts and help them weed out people with biases either for or against Trump, said Bachner, a former assistant district attorney in the same Manhattan office which is trying the case against the ex-president.
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