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What Jurors Were Saying, and Possibly Thinking

Drawings of day three of the Trump Manhattan Criminal Trial

Liza Donnelly
2 min readApr 18, 2024

The third day of Trump’s Manhattan Civil Trial is over for today, and they have indeed seated a jury of twelve Manhattanites, thanks to the efficiency of Judge Merchan. Tomorrow will be for picking the six alternates.

I took these quotes below from the NY Times reporters who were in the room. Of course, my drawings are made-up figures, I have no idea what the jurors look like.

One of the women was supposed to be seated yesterday, but came in today saying she felt her annonymity had been compromised. It’s scary — these jurors need to be not known because someone could try to influence them, or worse, an extreme Maga person could try to hurt them.

This person above reflects partially how I feel, except I really don’t know if I could be fair. To be perfectly honest. I don’t think I could be unbiased. But I love this process because I do believe that most…

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