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CPH Daily Bulletin 7/13/2025

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#California courts owe defendants a jury of their peers. It’s still too hard to get one

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/07/california-courts-jury-pay-peers/

#JurySelection #CriminalJustice #RacialBias

In #HunterBiden’s trial, jury selection highlights #UnitedStates’ drug epidemic

The nation’s political divisions were also laid bare as 6 men & 6 women were chosen….

#JurySelection for the trial of #POTUS #Biden’s son Hunter turned into an impromptu but painful indictment of the nation’s drug epidemic, w/person after person telling the court of their loved ones’ battles w/ #addiction.

#law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/06/03/hunter-biden-trial-jury-selection-addiction/

The judge overseeing the #HunterBiden case is nearly done w/ #JurySelection, having narrowed the field down to 32 potential candidates, from which defense lawyers & prosecutors will use peremptory challenges to end up w/a dozen #jurors & 4 alternates. It is increasingly likely that jury selection, which began Monday morning, will finish by the afternoon.

#law

@mmiasma

A big part of the problem is the hypocrisy of the very media who are now bemoaning how dangerous it is to disclose information about the jurors.

And I don't mean just #FoxNews.

Yesterday, on both #CNN and #MSNBC, they revealed enough infor about at least 3 jurors that I felt that if I'd known them personally, I could've easily identified them. Practically the only thing missing from one description was the person's Social Security number. (How is it that revealing exactly where he worked now and where he used to work, NOT giving away identifying information? How many people could have the same job history?🤦‍♀️)

The #media is so hungry for every little detail, they want to fill their endless hours of monotonous coverage with more than the same few repeated sentences, so that they end up ignoring how much danger THEY are creating by revealing so much.

It's easy to point the finger at Fox, but remember they were not acting alone.

#TrumpTrial #TrumpTrial #JurySelection #MSM