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Former president Donald Trump sits in court to begin a second day of jury deliberations in his criminal trial in New York on Thursday. (Steven Hirsch/AFP/Getty Images)

Live updates Jury deliberations continue in Trump’s hush money trial

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Jurors in Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York are in their second day of deliberations Thursday.

The jurors heard the judge repeat a significant part of his instructions to them, at their request. Jurors also asked to revisit portions of witness testimony that suggested they were focused on Trump’s alleged involvement in and knowledge of a scheme to hide unsavory stories from voters ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

After hearing New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan’s instructions and the testimony again, jurors headed back to the jury room late Thursday morning to resume deliberations.

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The jurors had asked to hear some of the testimony given by David Pecker, the former chief executive of the company that published the National Enquirer tabloid.
The legal instructions from Merchan that the jury asked to rehear can be difficult for non-lawyers to understand, and given the intricacies of the prosecution’s case, it is not surprising that jurors want a second crack at the laws that are supposed to guide their verdict.
The jury got the case Wednesday and spent four hours deliberating. There’s no timeline for how long it will take — the panel could go for hours, days or weeks.
Trump, the only former U.S. president charged with a crime, faces 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to an adult-film actress ahead of the 2016 election. Prosecutors allege that he falsified the records as part of an election-meddling scheme.
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The jurors had asked to hear some of the testimony given by David Pecker, the former chief executive of the company that published the National Enquirer tabloid.
The legal instructions from Merchan that the jury asked to rehear can be difficult for non-lawyers to understand, and given the intricacies of the prosecution’s case, it is not surprising that jurors want a second crack at the laws that are supposed to guide their verdict.
The jury got the case Wednesday and spent four hours deliberating. There’s no timeline for how long it will take — the panel could go for hours, days or weeks.
Trump, the only former U.S. president charged with a crime, faces 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to an adult-film actress ahead of the 2016 election. Prosecutors allege that he falsified the records as part of an election-meddling scheme.
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