Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s lawyers have argued that the Tesla CEO is viewed in a negative light by more than 80 percent of prospective jurors in San Francisco in an effort to get his upcoming trial against a group of Tesla shareholders moved out of the state.
Lawyers for Musk argued in court documents that questionnaires, which are not publicly available, completed by nearly 200 prospective jurors in San Francisco showed that 82 percent of them have a negative opinion of Musk, Bloomberg reported.
Only two or three of the potential jurors acknowledged knowing someone who works at Twitter, The Associated Press reported. …