Judge greets potential Manafort jurors: 'Put what you've read and learned aside'
Source: Washington Post
Potential jurors in former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s upcoming Alexandria federal court trial filled out questionnaires Tuesday asking what they know about the case and whether they are able to ignore all of that to decide on a verdict.
“You will be asked questions about what you’ve seen or know or heard,” Judge T.S. Ellis III told the group of about 70 possible jurors Tuesday morning, and, “Can you put what you’ve read and learned aside?”
Manafort, whose trial is set to begin July 31, is accused of bank and tax fraud, but he is being prosecuted by the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.
His attorneys had hoped to ask jurors whether they voted in that election and for other signs of their political views. On Monday, Ellis rejected such political questions as “theater.”
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