NEW YORK, April 14 (Reuters) - When prospective New York City jurors gather for Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial on Monday, it may be tough to find ones who don't have an opinion about the brash businessman-turned-politician who began building his real estate empire in Manhattan decades ago. They will be questioned by lawyers for the Republican presidential candidate and the state of New York seeking to uncover biases and possible political agendas before impaneling 12 jurors to hear what could be the only criminal case Trump faces before...

Selection will begin on Monday in Trump’s ‘hush money’ trial, and will fail on many levels to vet jurors properly, the scholar said. The process of selecting jurors and alternates for the criminal trial of Donald J. Trump, on charges related to allegedly falsified business records related to a “hush money” payment, is highly unlikely to result in a jury that will weigh the evidence and render a verdict objectively, a legal expert has told The Epoch Times. While some of the questions on the form directly address potential political...

Former President Donald Trump says the jury selection in his upcoming New York criminal trial is "largely luck." "It depends who you get. It’s very unfair that I’m having a trial there," he told reporters during a press conference with House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. Jury selection begins Monday on the case, the first of four criminal indictments slated to go to trial. Trump is accused of doctoring his company’s records to hide the real reason for payments to Michael Cohen, his former lawyer and fixer who helped the candidate...