What are we to make of the anonymous jury in former President Donald Trump‘s criminal trial in New York? The practice has long had its critics. First let’s get technical: Trump’s jury is not ...
While anonymous juries are somewhat rare in the U.S., in 2021, out of 100,000 jury trials in the country, just a dozen kept the identities of jurors hidden from the public, USA Today reported ...
Nevertheless, juror names were known for most of the 20th century. This was seen as fundamental to public respect for the system. The first recorded use of an anonymous jury was the 1977 trial of ...