(Friday PO) After grand jurors were doxed, Georgia prosecutors want Trump trial jurors shielded

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ATLANTA — Fulton County prosecutors want a judge to restrict defendants, the media and anyone else from publicizing the identities of future jurors in the Georgia criminal case focused on former President Donald Trump.

That request comes after members of the grand jury that indicted Trump and his allies in August for a sweeping racketeering conspiracy had their personal information published on a far-right website.
Threats, slurs and menace: Far-right websites target Fulton County grand jurors
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Threats, slurs and menace: Far-right websites target Fulton County grand jurors

District Attorney Fani Willis is asking Fulton Superior Judge Scott McAfee to prevent anyone from sharing the likeness or identifying personal information of prospective jurors or jurors in the election interference trial.

"It is clearly foreseeable that trial jurors will likely be doxed should their names be made public," Willis wrote in her motion Wednesday. "If that were to happen, the effect on jurors' ability to decide the issues before them impartially and without outside influence would undoubtedly be placed in jeopardy."
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In an attached affidavit, Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum wrote that the grand jurors were subject to harassment and threats after their home addresses, phone numbers and vehicle information were posted on a website operated by a Russian company.

At that point, Schierbaum wrote that local law enforcement enacted an operational plan to protect grand jurors, which he says is now straining agency resources. He did not detail what that security entails.

WABE reported in July that Georgia law requires that indictments list the names of grand jurors, even in controversial cases, but the Atlanta chief's affidavit suggests law enforcement took these extra steps to protect their safety only after the grand jurors had been doxed.

Doxing is a term for when a person's private information is posted online without permission to shame, embarrass or target them.

An investigator in the district attorney's office also concluded that Willis and her family's personal information was also posted on the same website, along with racist and derogatory comments. Willis is Black.
Prosecutors expect to call over 150 witnesses in Georgia election interference case
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Prosecutors expect to call over 150 witnesses in Georgia election interference case
All defendants in Georgia racketeering case, including Trump, have pleaded not guilty
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All defendants in Georgia racketeering case, including Trump, have pleaded not guilty

The investigator, Gerald Walsh, wrote that the website is known to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the site has refused to take down any of the information.

"The doxing of both the grand jurors and the District Attorney are permanent," Schierbaum wrote.
Juror names are typically made public in Georgia

There has not been precedent in Georgia for sealing the names of jurors or grand jurors in Georgia.

Then this week, the names of grand jurors were not listed in a racketeering indictment charging activists opposing a controversial Atlanta police training center.
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"We're in new territory in Georgia," says Pete Skandalakis, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia, as judges, jurors and court staff are facing growing harassment and officials in Georgia are beginning to look for novel ways to respond.

He says the names of trial jurors have traditionally been public information, at least after a verdict, if not at the onset.

While Willis' motion does not seem to be asking a judge to formally seal the names, she is asking for an order to prevent the dissemination of "any verbal or written descriptions of any information that would assist persons in determining the identity of any jurors or prospective jurors."

In August, Skandalakis said transparency is a bedrock of Georgia's justice system, but it may be worth asking whether it's time for the legislature or the courts to consider mechanisms to protect jurors in specific cases.

"We have an interest in making sure that people are willing to serve," Skandalakis said. "And if something makes it dangerous or makes people not want to participate, that is going to impact all of us as citizens."

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When do you think these phycos will realize the culture war is not helping anyone?

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When do you think these phycos will realize the culture war is not helping anyone?

They don't have any other war to fight, so "never."

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They don't have any other war to fight, so "never."

Are we going with the people need an enemy angle on this?

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Are we going with the people need an enemy angle on this?

Not necessarily, but when your whole philosophy is based on a culture of grievance then what else do you have? The Republican party today doesn't have anything except grievance and hatred for anyone not a Republican. Of course they're going to continue the culture war. That's their whole identity. Remember when the Republicans were going to "Repeal and Replace Obamacare"? They couldn't because they didn't have any workable ideas to replace it with. Not surprisingly, since The Affordable Care Act was a conservative idea to begin with and it was all they had. They were just mad because it was a Democrat who implemented it, but couldn't repeal it because it was (more or less) successful.

The Republican party today doesn't have anything other than "Democrats are bad, m'kay" and "anti-woke" nonsense. Without the culture wars what have they got? Nothing.

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Supreme Court justices doxxed on dark web
Five conservative Supreme Court justices were reportedly doxxed by threat actors that claim to have obtained credit card numbers, addresses and other information.
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The right are all bad people
Democrats are all good people
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That's just my personal conclusion after reading these posts
Publishing supreme Court personal information and home addresses most probably done by wingnut Republicans

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Hypocrisy - what happened to sanctuary blue cities? sanctuary states?
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https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2 ... -in-texas/

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Not necessarily, but when your whole philosophy is based on a culture of grievance then what else do you have? The Republican party today doesn't have anything except grievance and hatred for anyone not a Republican. Of course they're going to continue the culture war. That's their whole identity. Remember when the Republicans were going to "Repeal and Replace Obamacare"? They couldn't because they didn't have any workable ideas to replace it with. Not surprisingly, since The Affordable Care Act was a conservative idea to begin with and it was all they had. They were just mad because it was a Democrat who implemented it, but couldn't repeal it because it was (more or less) successful.

I agree with you on the state of the GOP. But the the problem with Obama care is a bit more complex. Once people have been given something if you take it away you create anger. Removing any program that provides people with services is political suicide.

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he right are all bad people
Democrats are all good people
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That's just my personal conclusion after reading these posts

I'm not sure how you would arrive at that conclusion. People doxed jurors to threaten and intimate them. I don't care what your political beliefs are if you do that you are a scum bag. I spoke equally as harshly when Matt Walsh was hacked and his family threatened. The people who do this are cowards and I have 0 use for them.

We didn't even talk about "The Right" we talked about the GOP. Which is one organization that is "the right" ostensibly, but in practice not really.

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Tomato tomahto

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Removing any program that provides people with services is political suicide.

Maybe, but the Republican and Trumplican promise was to "Repeal and Replace with something much much better." But they couldn't do it, because they don't have any ideas anymore. The Affordable Care Act was their "much much better" idea, and they didn't have anything else.