Finding that “prejudices may cut in any direction,” a federal judge has ruled that comments made by former Ald. Edward M. Burke about Jewish people may be heard by jurors during his corruption trial next month, despite tensions over the war between Israel and Hamas.
But Burke’s attorneys told U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall on Monday that news about the war is “only going to get worse,” and they said they’d be submitting questions for potential jurors on the topic ahead of Burke’s Nov. 6 trial.
