(29 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York – 29 May 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Sisak, The Associated Press:
"Four and a half hours of deliberations at Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial. No verdict, but lots of questions. Jurors asking to hear again testimony from the first prosecution witness, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker. Specifically, jurors want to hear Pecker’s recollections of a meeting where he says he agreed to be the eyes and ears of Donald Trump’s campaign. Pecker says he pledged to look for negative stories about Donald Trump so that they could be suppressed. Prosecutors say that was the crux of the alleged hush money scheme at the heart of this case. Now, the jury also wants to hear Michael Cohen’s perspective on that same meeting. Cohen, of course, the key prosecution witness, he was Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer. Jurors honing in on this first day of deliberations on testimony pertaining to former Playboy model Karen McDougal. She was paid $150,000 by the National Enquirer to stay silent about her claims that she had an affair with Trump."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Sisak, The Associated Press:
"Jurors will hear that testimony when they return to deliberations for a second day on Thursday. They’ve also asked the judge to reread them the many instructions that govern their deliberations."
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STORYLINE:
The jury in Donald Trump’s hush money trial has ended its first day of deliberations without a verdict.
The panel asked Wednesday to rehear potentially crucial testimony about the alleged hush money scheme at the heart of the history-making case.
Jurors also asked to rehear at least part of the judge’s legal instructions.
The notes sent to the judge were the first burst of communication with the court after the jury of seven men and five women was sent to a private room just before 11:30 a.m. to begin weighing a verdict.
The 12-person jury was sent home around 4 p.m. after about 4 1/2 hours of deliberations.
The process is to resume Thursday.
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