So many people said they hate Elon Musk that half the jury pool got tossed
When a defendant is this infamous, “fair and impartial” starts to look less like a standard and more like a hope and a dream.
Finding an impartial jury for Elon Musk is proving tricky! So many potential jurors said they couldn’t set aside their opinions that nearly half the pool was dismissed before the trial even began.
Finding nine jurors who could put their opinions about Musk aside to be properly fair and impartial took over five hours.
Out of the jury pool of 93, Breyer dismissed 40 of them right off the bat when he asked who did not feel they could set aside their biases and they raised their hands.
The questionnaire filled out by all prospective jurors revealed many of them voiced negative opinions about Musk, the companies he owns, or his political activities connected to President Donald Trump’s administration and his short-lived but highly controversial involvement with DOGE.
According to Bloomberg Law, “One prospective juror stated that he could be impartial in a civil trial, but that if this were a criminal trial he would have a ‘moral obligation’ to convict Musk and send him to prison.”
When a defendant is this infamous, “fair and impartial” starts to look less like a standard and more like a hope and a dream.