{"id":1097219,"date":"2023-01-17T17:15:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T22:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1097219"},"modified":"2023-01-17T17:15:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T22:15:01","slug":"talented-but-crazy-potential-jurors-give-court-their-opinions-on-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1097219","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTalented but crazy\u201d: Potential jurors give court their opinions on Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/getty-musk-trial-documents-800x534-1.jpg\" alt=\"Outside a courthouse, a man pushes a cart holding boxes full of documents related to a trial involving Elon Musk.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/getty-musk-trial-documents.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1668\" data-width=\"2500\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Documents for the shareholder trial against Elon Musk and Tesla arrive at the federal courthouse in San Francisco on Tuesday, January 17, 2023.  (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Jury selection in a class-action lawsuit against Tesla CEO Elon Musk began today in a federal courthouse in San Francisco. Not surprisingly, potential jurors already knew who Musk is, and some expressed strong, negative opinions about him.<\/p>\n<p>One woman called Musk &#8220;talented but crazy&#8221; in a questionnaire distributed to potential jurors. Other potential jurors described Musk as arrogant, narcissistic, unpredictable, and irrational. One said Musk has a mercenary personality.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean Musk won&#8217;t get a fair trial. The jury selection process, while imperfect, is designed to exclude jurors who cannot make impartial judgments based on the evidence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1910686#p3\">Read 15 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1910686&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1910686\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cTalented but crazy\u201d: Potential jurors give court their opinions on Elon Musk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ Documents for the shareholder trial against Elon Musk and Tesla arrive at the federal courthouse in San Francisco on Tuesday, January 17, 2023. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) Jury selection in a class-action lawsuit against Tesla CEO Elon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1097219\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1097220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1097219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1097219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1097220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1097219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1097219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1097219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}