BALTIMORE — A jury was selected Thursday to decide the mortgage fraud trial of former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby. Defense lawyers and prosecutors chose 12 jurors and four alternates from a pool of approximately 70 prospective jurors. Over two days, the attorneys and U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby asked prospective jurors questions aimed at eliciting their biases. .
Donald Trump attended the first day of his civil defamation trial, watching as a jury was selected to determine how much, if any, damages the former president must pay to E. Jean Carroll for his 2019 defamatory statements about Carroll’s sexual assault allegations.