Initial estimates that it would take weeks to seat a jury appear to have relied on a handful of mistaken assumptions.
Monday evening, after the first day’s slog of jury selection in former president Donald Trump’s so-called hush-money trial in Manhattan criminal court, it was being estimated that the process of finding twelve jurors and six alternates could take close to a month. But the pace picked up markedly Tuesday. By the end of the session, seven jurors had been seated.
