Manhattan Trump-trial jurors and Michael Cohen's family doxxed in days following May 2024 guilty verdict

What happened

On May 30, 2024, a Manhattan jury returned guilty verdicts on all 34 counts in the criminal hush-money trial of Donald Trump. Within 24 hours, posts on pro-Trump forums, Truth Social, and other platforms began calling for the jurors to be identified, named, and doxxed.

NBC News reported on May 31 that posts circulated photos pulled from social media, claimed identifications of individual jurors, and explicit threats. The 12 jurors had been kept anonymous through trial under the court's protective order. No juror's home address was confirmed as accurately published in coverage reviewed. The campaign was active. The volume was high.

Days later, Michael Cohen's family was doxxed after Cohen testified for the prosecution. The Guardian reported on June 4 that personal information about Cohen's wife, daughter, and son was posted online following his testimony. Cohen publicly asked supporters to stand down on amplification.

How it started

The juror-doxxing attempts ran on the standard crowdsourced playbook. Open call to the audience. Volunteers digging through public posts, court sketches, and people-search results. The first guess that fits the shape of the question gets amplified. Verification is everyone's job, which means it's no one's job. The same failure mode that produced the Ferguson misidentification in 2014 was running again a decade later.

The Cohen family doxxing was a different shape. Cohen had been a public figure for years. His testimony made him the witness in the case, but the family targeting cleared the standard public-figure threshold quickly. Wife, daughter, son. Information that comes off the same broker pages anyone can pull from a name.

Why this case matters

This is the jurors and witnesses side of the Manhattan trial doxxing cluster. The companion piece, Manhattan trial officials doxxing, covers the Letitia James and Judge Merchan family incidents.

The civilian trial participants in this cluster faced a different threat surface than the judicial officers. The judges, the AG, the DA, the prosecutors all had agency security details, statutory protections in many cases, and existing threat-assessment infrastructure. The jurors had a court protective order that lasted the duration of trial. Once the verdict came in, that order's practical reach over their off-duty privacy dropped sharply.

Witnesses sit in a third category. They're called to testify by subpoena or cooperation. Cohen's family had no court order at all. The brokers serving up addresses by name don't ask whether the lookup is for a juror, a witness, a sitting judge, or anyone else. They just return the address.

What this means for you

If you're a juror, a witness, or anyone summoned into a high-profile public proceeding, the protection the court gave you ends when the case ends. The address that ends up in the next post-verdict thread is the address that's already on your broker pages right now.

New York's Address Confidentiality Program covers a narrow class of victims. The federal Lieu Act covers federal judges only. There is no statute that automatically pulls a juror or witness off broker pages.

Continuous broker removal is the only piece of this most civilians can put in place themselves. We file the demands across the people-search layer where juror identifications and witness family lookups get assembled. The fewer broker pages that return your name when the verdict drops, the less material a targeting effort has to work with.

For more on the doxxing chain, see /doxxing. For the officials side of this cluster, see Manhattan trial officials doxxing.

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