Jurors in former U.S. Rep. George Santos’ fraud trial, set to begin next month, will be kept partially anonymous and will be not be subject to a written questionnaire, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert of the Eastern District of New York said written juror queries are the “worst thing” she has encountered in her time on the bench and a “very inefficient” alternative to oral voir dire, which she said provides opportunities to “ask probing questions, not just political ones.”
