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Jurors are entering their second day of deliberations after the court finished readback of testimony from former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker.The jury is discussing the 34 counts of falsified business records Trump faces in connection with a hush money payment to adult film actor Stormy Daniels near the end of the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump has pleaded not guilty.
The prosecutor had asked him, “The purpose of that part was to benefit the campaign; am I understanding it right?” “That’s right," Pecker said.This transcript reading is getting into the crux of the jury’s request: who was at the Trump Tower meeting, how the Trump Tower meeting came about, etc. “I believed the story was true. I believed it would have been very embarrassing to himself and also to the campaign," she read.For timing purposes, remember this started at 10:27 a.m., and Merchan said he expected it to take about 30 minutes or so last night. So they should be done around 11 a.m.“I am going to read the questions as if I am a lawyer, and my colleague is going to read the answers as if she’s a witness," the staffer, a woman, said.
He added that the terms contribution and expenditure"include anything of value, including any purchase, payment, loan, or advance, made by any person for the purpose of influencing any election for federal office.
Merchan said business record"means any writing or article, including computer data or a computer program, kept or maintained by an enterprise for the purpose of evidencing or reflecting its condition or activity."Note the accomplice liability instruction, which still requires that Trump instruct/command/solicit, etc. the person actually committing the falsification, is separate from the word “cause,” which appears in the falsification of business records statute and charge.
“You must decide whether a witness told the truth and was accurate, or instead, testified falsely or was mistaken,” the instructions read. “You must also decide what importance to give to the testimony you accept as truthful and accurate. It is the quality of the testimony that is controlling, not the number of witnesses who testify.”Many of the jurors are taking diligent notes as Merchan goes over the jury instructions. Juror 7, who is a civil litigator, seems to be the most prolific.
As many as 22 witnesses took the stand over six weeks, as the seven men and five women who make up the jury sat for more than 80 hours of testimony in New York City. Then, after nearly eight hours of closing arguments, the judge presiding over the case, Juan Merchan, began instructing the panel of 12 New Yorkers yesterday on how to weigh whether the Manhattan district attorney’s office had left any room for doubt in what prosecutors deemed a “mountain” of evidence.
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