Article snippet: The jury in the highly publicized criminal tax and bank fraud case against former Trump campaign chairman MORE is not under sequester, a fact under scrutiny as jurors settle into their third day of deliberations. Federal District Judge T.S. Ellis III did not order the six men, six women and four alternates to be sequestered throughout the trial, and even allowed them to recess for the weekend shortly after 5 p.m. on Friday. At the end of each day, he’s sent them off with the same reminder: Don’t talk to anyone about the case, don’t read the paper or watch the news, and don’t do any research on your own. “It’s very rare, it’s very expensive and it’s a huge burden on jurors,” Seth Waxman, who worked for 13 years as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, said of forcing a jury to stay together in a hotel, out of public view, for the duration of a trial. But the Manafort trial is unusual — in part because the president of the United States has taken a keen interest in its outcome. On Twitter, Trump suggested Manafort is being treated worse than American gangster Al Capone and called his former campaign chairman a “good guy” when speaking to the press. Trump has also regularly derided the Mueller investigation, which is examining whether there was collusion between his campaign and Moscow, as a politically driven “witch hunt.” Such publicity could make it difficult for jurors on the trial to ignore what’s being said about it.... Link to the full article to read more