The first criminal trial of a former US president is set to begin Monday with jury selection – the painstaking process of choosing 12 people from hundreds to deliver a verdict in what could be the most closely watched legal case in history American.
This is a complex and highly choreographed affair that is likely to take weeks. Prosecutors and defense attorneys will spend long days in the downtown Manhattan courthouse investigating the biases of potential jurors, then sparring privately in front of the judge over who should be hit and who should stay.
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