"Stealth jurors" in Trump's criminal trial

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Both prosecuting and defense attorneys are worried about “stealth jurors” negatively impacting the criminal trial of Donald Trump’s company … and it wouldn’t be the first time this type of juror impacted a case.

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00:00Prosecutors and defense attorneys are on the lookout for stealth jurors while conducting

00:04jury selection in the criminal trial Donald Trump's company. So what is a stealth juror

00:09and how have they affected criminal cases in the past? Brute can explain in less than 60 seconds.

00:14A stealth juror is someone who purposely tries to be seated on a jury for a specific case,

00:19usually by intentionally hiding their political biases and opinions that would get them dismissed

00:24for not being fair and impartial. And in the past, jurors on other multiple high-profile

00:30national cases have been accused of lying and misrepresenting their views in order to get on

00:34specific juries. The lawyers for Scott Peterson, a man convicted for the murder of his wife and

00:40unborn child, argued that three stealth jurors found their way into his trial and influenced the

00:45verdict. Martha Stewart's lawyers also accused a juror of purposefully lying to get seated on

00:50a trial that ultimately sent her to prison for nearly five months. The Trump Organization

00:55has pleaded not guilty to the nine counts of tax fraud.

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