(FORT PIERCE, Fla.) — One hundred and twenty potential jurors are in federal court in Fort Pierce, Florida, Tuesday for the second day of jury selection in the criminal trial of Ryan Routh, the man accused of trying to kill Donald Trump on his golf course last year.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon — who oversaw and dismissed one of Trump’s criminal cases — hopes to have a jury finalized by Wednesday afternoon, with the trial expected to take approximately three weeks.
The jury selection process so far has gone slowly, with Routh — who is representing himself despite not being a lawyer and having limited legal experience — requesting to ask potential jurors questions that Cannon deemed “politically charged” and irrelevant.
Among the questions Judge Cannon has barred Routh from asking a