MMM’s Litigation Practice Chair, Jeff Douglass, was recently quoted in an AJC article analyzing why the jury selection process for Former President Donald Trump’s case in Georgia will likely take longer than his criminal case in New York.
A dozen jurors and six alternates were selected over five days in Manhattan, where the former president is facing thirty-four felony charges after being accused of falsifying business records to cover up an alleged scandal. There are several reasons why Atlanta attorneys and law professors believe that the selection process will likely exceed five days, and Douglass notes that “the charges that Trump faces in Manhattan aren’t as complicated as those brought against him under Georgia’s racketeering law.” Douglass goes on to explain that Trump’s case in Georgia will be more of an “apples-to-apples comparison” to the YSL case involving rapper Young Thug and his “Young Slime Life” associates. The YSL jury selection process took ten months, and Douglass states that he thinks Trump’s case in Georgia will “see some of the same issues that we saw in the YSL jury selection.”
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