A recent development in the legal proceedings involving former President Donald Trump has raised concerns over potential irregularities in the jury deliberations. New York Judge Juan Merchan recently issued a notice to both the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and Trump's legal team regarding a post on the Facebook page of the New York court system.
🚨 BREAKING: Judge Merchan sends letter to parties in NY Trump case notifying them that this comment was left on their Facebook page before the verdict:
“My cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted & Thank you folks for all your hard work!!!!.” pic.twitter.com/u5SBuNQs6y — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 7, 2024
Is this grounds for a mistrial? pic.twitter.com/rAi6nj4wGx
— Mammoth Nation (@MammothNationUS) June 7, 2024
The post, attributed to a user named "Michael Anderson," claimed to be from the cousin of a juror who allegedly had insider knowledge of Trump's conviction on 34 felony charges. The comment, posted concurrently with the verdict announcement, expressed gratitude to the individuals involved in the case for their efforts.
🚨 WHY DID JUDGE MERCHAN LEAVE OUT THE PART ABOUT “MAGA CRAZIES”? https://t.co/dY2rg0VolM pic.twitter.com/DBLu41k7cU
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 7, 2024
Trending on 𝕏: “Mistrial” https://t.co/whEtO0Ijph pic.twitter.com/2hn9dRSruq
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 7, 2024
Judge Merchan noted that the "Michael Anderson" comment was a response to a routine notice by the Unified Court System (UCS), dated May 29, 2024, concerning oral arguments in the Fourth Department of the Appellate Division, which was unrelated to the ongoing proceedings.
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While the UCS notice was published a day before the verdict was rendered, the timing of "Michael Anderson's" post in relation to the verdict remains unspecified in Merchan's order. It was only mentioned that the post was labeled as being "one week old."
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The authenticity of the familial connection between "Michael Anderson" and the juror mentioned in the post has not been confirmed. However, if the post does indeed indicate foreknowledge of the jury's decision, it could serve as a significant point of contention for Trump's legal team to challenge the verdict on appeal.
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I don’t waste my time reading articles with ‘COULD BE’ in the title.
rotten to the core
But, but, but, Trump was convicted 12 of his peers. Does this mean he won’t go to jail.
They weren’t his peers. They were Democrat anti-Trumper left-wingers
THIS DEFINITELY NEEDS TO BE INVESTIGATED AND IF CONFIRMED, SHOULD BE GROUNDS FOR OVERTURNING THE VERDICT AND RECONVENING THE TRIAL!
That whole so called trial was a joke. Then the so called Judge decided that for the 1st time in the History of Ever that 1 the Jury didn’t actually need everyone to vote guilty to render a verdict. And 2 the most important was that they didn’t have to find him guilty of anything just that he might have possibly been involved. I’ve been a Juror before and the Judge 1st told us that in order to find the defendant guilty it had to be a finding that all 12 said guilty. Somehow NYC Jury Laws are different then everywhere else and evidently the Constitution and or he Bill of Rights don’t even exist in NYC. That Judge, the DA and the Prosecutors all need to be fired, disbarred and charged with several Felonies.
welcome to talmudic law by Rev 3:9. J6 are much worse than this and Trump set them up for Pelosi to mow them down. Jesus is King of kings
As much as I would believe any one of the daft vile jurors would engage in misconduct, this could also be a prank. I guess we’ll see.
I doubt Merchan would bother with a hearing if the court wasn’t sure there was a connection between the commentor and the juror. Simple enough to figure that out.
Something must be going on, a needed distraction?
Of course he was going to be convicted. The case was brought bybthe drmocrat party and biden, in a democrat city, with democrat prosecutors, one democrat prosecutor sent from the democrat DC DOJ, with a democrat judge, and a democrat jury.
I apologize. I should have used quotations around each word “democrat” in that comment. There is absolutely nothing democratic about those SOBs. “Democrats” are absolute evil totalitarians and worthless. Amoebas are more valuable to earth and civilized society.
This kind of crap has been happening to the poor forever, it is just now touching the rich. Maybe now something will truly change. Justice use to be only for the rich, fore a poor person can not summon the money to fight against the state. Did that ever sound fair? One should not need an attorney if the letter of the law applies. We have come so far away from justice.
There were so many occassions, when & why, this “so-called” trial could have been declared a “mis-trial” and dimissed…but with a crooked Judge, left-tard jury & a corrupt, DumbAss-DA, who’s re-election slogan was “Get Trump…” no frickking way❗️Why should this be any different❓So,the fix was in, no way Trump get’s a fair trial in a democrat-run “shit-hole” like NY.
I think the slimey judge realized how bad of a mistake he made by convicting DJT and is looking for a way out. He knows that if he sentences him to jail he would guarantee Trumps election.
Ha ha. Sone rando brand new account with no FB friends and an anime profile picture leaves a comment and all the boomers think it is real. You probably believe the guy in Nigeria wanting to split a million dollars with you.
Damn all Demon Craps to hell where they belong
The so-called ‘judge’ wouldn’t call a mistrial even if he were caught sleeping with prosecution attorney Necheles.
Any judge who’d take a case from which his daughter was raking in millions off of obvious nepotism surely isn’t going to call a mistrial on such flimsy grounds as juror ‘leakage!’