{"id":105739,"date":"2024-05-29T12:06:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T12:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/trump-trial-live-updates-jury-deliberations-to-get-underway\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T12:06:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T12:06:10","slug":"trump-trial-live-updates-jury-deliberations-to-get-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/trump-trial-live-updates-jury-deliberations-to-get-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump trial live updates: Jury deliberations to get underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-29\/GETTY_5322_GavelUSAFlag.jpeg\" alt><figcaption>Creativeye99\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York City, where he is facing felony charges related to a 2016 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. It marks the first time in history that a former U.S. president has been tried on criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>Trump last April pleaded not guilty to a 34-count indictment charging him with falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment his then-attorney Michael Cohen made to Daniels in order to boost his electoral prospects in the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p><em>Here&#8217;s how the news is developing:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>May 29, 7:01 AM<\/strong><br \/><strong>Jury deliberations scheduled to get underway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The jury in Donald Trump&#8217;s criminal hush money trial is scheduled to begin deliberating the outcome of the case this morning after lengthy closing arguments yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Juan Merchan will begin the proceedings at 10 a.m. ET when he instructs the jury about the law in the case &#8212; a vital process that Merchan estimates will take approximately an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Once the jury is charged, they can begin deliberating whether prosecutors met their burden by proving that Trump falsified 34 business records to further a criminal conspiracy to influence the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>The jury heard nearly eight hours of summations yesterday when defense lawyer Todd Blanche and prosecutor Joshua Steinglass delivered marathon closing arguments.<\/p>\n<p>Blanche told jurors that prosecutors failed to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt due in part to their reliance on the testimony of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, who he described as the &#8220;human embodiment of reasonable doubt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Steinglass argued that Trump&#8217;s alleged falsification of records ahead of the election amounted to a &#8220;subversion of democracy&#8221; by hiding critical information from voters.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creativeye99\/Getty Images (NEW YORK) &#8212; Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York City, where he is facing felony charges related to a 2016 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. It marks the first time in history that a former U.S. president has been tried<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/trump-trial-live-updates-jury-deliberations-to-get-underway\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}