Donald Trump is preparing to embark on a new chapter on Monday: the start of the first criminal trial for a former president and one that he will seek at every juncture to discredit during the six-to-eight-week event.

Monday will mark the start of jury selection, where the court will summon hundreds of prospective jurors and narrow them down to a pool of 12 jurors and six alternates. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, an elected Democrat, charged Trump with 34 counts of first-degree falsifying business records, a low-level felony that could result in up to four years behind bars if convicted.