The Manhattan judge presiding over Donald Trump’s criminal case may have shocked the country when he empaneled seven jurors on Tuesday following just two days of jury selection—but observers say it shows the jurist is in complete control of the proceedings.
“Despite everyone’s belief that voir dire was going to be next to impossible and was going to stretch on for weeks, we have jurors,” said longtime white-collar defense attorney Robert Gottlieb, who has practiced in Manhattan Criminal Supreme Court for decades and empaneled many juries there.
