Jurors Make Evidence Request as They Deliberate Trump Verdict

Published on May 30, 2024

A few hours into deliberations, the jurors in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York asked to hear key parts of testimony read back and for legal instructions to be repeated. The court began on Thursday morning with another request to hear instructions regarding how to consider evidence, and New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan repeated instructions for about half an hour. New York jurors are not given written copies of instructions but can ask for the judge to repeat all or parts of them as many times as they require. After the instructions, court clerks read back some 30 pages of testimony transcripts, seemingly focusing on testimony by former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker as to the extent of President Trump’s knowledge and involvement in an alleged conspiracy to influence the 2016 elections....

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