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Willis seeks to shield jurors in Trump trial (www.ajc.com)

submitted 1 year ago by DevCat@lemmy.world to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has asked the judge in the Donald Trump racketeering trial to shield the identities of prospective jurors to spare them the threats and harassment faced by the grand jury that indicted the former president and 18 of his allies last month.

In a motion filed in Fulton County Superior Court Wednesday, Willis asked Judge Scott McAfee to prohibit defendants, the news media or “any other person” from capturing any sort of image — from a photo to a drawing — of jurors or from distributing any identifying information about them.

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[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be negligent endangerment if they didn't.

[–] McScience@discuss.online 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah aside from the fact that it's going to likely affect their decision. Like I wanna see this guy face justice but not at the expense of my family getting fieebombed inside our house