Andrew Giuliani Argues ‘Rogue Juror’ Who Made Eye Contact With Trump and Put Head in Hands Will Force a Hung Jury

Jennifer Bowers BahneyMay 30th, 2024, 3:33 pm
 

Andrew Giuliani, the son of embattled lawyer Rudy Giuliani, reported for Real America’s Voice from the Manhattan court where a jury is deciding Donald Trump’s fate in his hush money trial — and pushed a “rogue juror theory” he believes could force a hung jury in the trial.

Some legal experts have warned of the possibility that a pro-Trump “stealth juror” could have made their way onto the jury by claiming to be neutral during the voir dire, only to show bias during deliberations. Giuliani seemed to endorse that theory on RAV.

“In terms of the rogue juror theory, I do have another piece of information that happened today at one point,” Giuliani said. “While they were reading back the testimony of Michael Cohen, what Cohen testified happened at the Trump Tower meeting in August of 2015, that same juror who, just the other day as Steinglass was giving his hours-long summation, put his head in his hands. And I think that’s the same juror the Trump team is looking at. He ended up looking at President Trump, was the only one that was looking at President Trump, it was not with a scowl on his face during that testimony.”

Jack Posobiec, the Pizzagate conspiracy theorist turned RAV host, added, “So, that’s the same individual, this is that rogue juror, let’s not say the number right now, but this is that same individual you said yesterday, head in the hands. This is the one that, there was a report yesterday, talking about the eye contact. Lighting up when J.D. Vance comes in the room, Anna Paulina Luna.”

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance wrote about the phenomenon in her blog during jury selection in the spring.

There has been lots of talk about the possibility of a stealth juror—someone who pretends to be neutral but who, once seated on the jury, will refuse to vote to convict no matter how strong the evidence is. Yes, that’s an inherent risk prosecutors confront in our system—that a juror with a hidden agenda might lie their way onto a jury. There is a movement for jury nullification whose advocates encourage jurors to insert their own sense of justice in place of the laws they disagree with and refuse to convict even when there is incontrovertible evidence of guilt. Prosecutors use their skills to try and detect these jurors and prevent them from being seated on the jury. The prosecutors involved in jury selection in this case have the combined experience for this.

Trump has pleaded not guilty to the 34 federal charges against him.

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