Meet Herson Cabreras, a man in his late 70s who once held the title of Juror Number 4 in a high-profile court case in New York. This wasn’t his first jury experience but it was definitely a unique one.
Cabreras had a memory slip. He didn’t recall a decades-old event from his past – a 30-year-old criminal charge. This unexpected twist caught him, and the media, by surprise, leading to Cabreras leaving the jury.
Since being dismissed, Cabrera shared what took place with reporters.

“That surprised me, that really surprised me,” Cabreras, told USA TODAY. “I said, ‘Wow, something else is going on here.’ But they decided not to take me, and that’s it. What can I say? So I said, ‘Fine.'”
Cabrera, who called Trump “fascinating,” said that he felt he was being thrown into a “competition” between Judge Juan Merchan, the prosecution, and the defense.

“Everybody wants to look good and fair in front of the public, but they don’t act fair,” Cabreras said.
“I didn’t expect they were going to go into my history of 30 years and pull out something I didn’t even remember,” he said.
“I just thought it was an excuse,” for prosecutors to get him off the jury, Cabreras added. As the confrontation in the courtroom intensified Cabreras expected Judge Merchan to intervene as he felt the prosectution was using a previous incident from over 33 years ago (1991) to get him off the jury.

“I looked at him, like, ‘Aren’t you going to say something?'” Cabreras said. “I’m sitting there, I’m the target, and he’s supposed to be judging. And he just let it happen, he didn’t say anything.”

The prosecution also zeroed in on Cabreras saying Trump is “fascinating and mysterious.”   “The guy walks in, and people go crazy,” he clarified. “That’s what I meant.”

Cabreras’ said that the entire experience made him upset and said Judge Merchan was a “cowardly judge” to let the prosecution drag him through the mud. “I feel sorry for the other jurors,” he said, expressing concern about other jurors potentially being dragged into the center of a fiercely contested legal battle. “Because if the way they treated me is any indication of how they’re going to treat other potential jurors, then I feel sorry for them.” Cabrera said that when push comes to shove, “they did me a favor.”