Jury selection began Monday in the first of former President Donald Trump’s criminal cases to go to trial, a case legal experts say is the weakest and most political but could nevertheless result in a conviction in the overwhelmingly Democratic New York county.
The trial for Trump’s hush money case, expected to last between six and eight weeks, will keep Trump in court each day amid a busy campaign season. Trump is facing 34 felony counts for allegedly falsifying business records relating to hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels in the lead up to the 2016 election, with each count carrying a maximum penalty of four years in prison.
Criminal defense attorney and legal analyst Philip Holloway told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the best Trump can hope for is a hung jury.
“It’s not likely Trump will get anything close to a fair trial in…
