Maxwell Jury Deliberates in Empty Courtroom Amid Virus Surge (2)

New Yorkers now can’t enter restaurants or movie theaters without showing proof of vaccination, but there’s no hard-and-fast rule excluding the unvaccinated from federal jury service.

U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan, who is presiding over Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial said she didn’t see a legal basis for striking unvaccinated jurors. That decision came weeks before the omicron variant began to appear in the New York area, boosting positive Covid cases. While it is unclear whether all of the jurors selected in the Maxwell trial are vaccinated, at least one woman told the judge during the selection process that ...