Trump Trial goes to the Jury. Starting at 10 AM
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Edit #3
Jury has been sent home.
The testimony they asked 4 will take a half hour to read. Judge said we are done for today.
Edit #2
UPDATE: We have a second note from the jury:
"We the jury request to rehear the judge's instructions."
Edit:
jury note
"We, the jury, request"
>David Pecker's testimony regarding his phone conversation with Trump
>Pecker's decision not to finalize and fund the assignment of McDougal's life rights
>Pecker's testimony regarding the Trump Tower meeting
>Michael Cohen's testimony regarding the Trump Tower meeting.
We could get a verdict today.
It's 34 counts they have to consider, but it's like 12 of the same thing, 11 of another thing and 11 of a third thing....so it seems, to me if you decide one, you decide the rest as well.
There's 34 charges of false business records. They are
Trump paid Michael Cohen $420,000 over 11 payments.
Nobody is arguing the records don't exist or that the payments did not happen.. The argument is are they false records. Were they reimbursing Michael Cohen for money he paid out or were they paying him for legal services. Trump says it was legal services.
The details of January check are not much different from the September check.
So I don't think it's 34 separate questions to answer. It's one question.
Are these legitimate legal services or are they a reimbursement?.
Perhaps you then apply that question to the checks and then to the invoices and then to The ledger entries. But it's not really 34 discussions
It is one question. But the jury has to answer each individual charge and take a vote for each individual charge. I've sat more than one criminal jury. It's a pain in the ass. You aren't allowed to take one vote for all the charges.