Alina Habba, a longtime lawyer for former President Donald Trump, argued that jurors in Trump’s criminal hush money trial should have been sequestered to prevent influence from family and friends over the holiday weekend.
Closing arguments are scheduled for Tuesday following the long Memorial Day weekend holiday, after which jurors will decide their verdict on Trump’s 34 charges of falsifying business records against the former president. Habba said she believed the jury should have been sequestered, or isolated from outside influences, such as the news or other influences, over the weekend.
“These are not sequestered jurors,” Habba said on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures. “They should have been sequestered because, in my opinion, these jurors are handling something that is completely unprecedented and unwarranted in America. And for them to be able to be out and…
