Former federal prosecutor Andrew Wiseman was asked on the latest episode of the “Pod Save America” podcast what would give him sleepless nights if he sued former President Donald Trump.
He replied, “Jury nullity.”
“What I ran into was the problem of a high-profile case of jurors wanting to be on the jury and being less outspoken, which is a nice way of saying ‘a lie,'” Wiseman, a legal analyst now at MSNBC, told co-host Dan Pfeiffer.
“Normally, most jurors don’t want to serve on a jury,” Weizmann noted during a discussion about Trump’s possible imminent indictment in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the attack on the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.
“But in high-profile cases, you have the problem of someone trying to really sneak up on someone who doesn’t intend to take their oath as a juror,” he said.
He continued, “All it takes is one juror to form a hung jury.” Even if the score is 11-1, Trump can still claim it’s a “big win.”
“So that would be my biggest concern,” he added. “The evidence seems incredibly strong. That is the biggest thing I would worry about.”
On Tuesday, the former president said, Trump claimed he received a “target letter” from the special counsel, which gave him “4 very short days to appear before a grand jury, which still means arrest and indictment.”
Trump has already been indicted this year for mishandling classified documents, faces trial in the 2024 Stormy Daniels Hush Money Payment case, and remains under investigation for his efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 Georgia election.
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