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Jurors Reach Verdict In Donald Trump Hush Money Trial
The jurors are on their second day of deliberations
That ask prompted Merchan to send the jury home a half-hour early Wednesday, at about 4 p.m., and got the lawyers on both sides jockeying out of view over which excerpts, exactly, to give to jurors from Pecker’s testimony about an August 2015 meeting at Trump Tower in New York. Prosecutors trace the criminal conspiracy laid out in their case against Trump to that meeting, and Pecker’s testimony in April was a key piece of the narrative they constructed for jurors over five weeks in court. The juror note also asked for two other areas of Pecker’s testimony: a June 2016 phone call with Trump; and the disposition of a $150,000 deal with Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who was selling a story about a yearlong affair with the married real estate mogul and reality television star.
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