Former President Donald Trump appears in Manhattan Criminal Court on Thursday, May 30, 2024, in New York.
Seth Little | Reuters
A jury reached its verdict Thursday in New York’s hush-money criminal trial against former President Donald Trump.
The 12 jurors issued a note to the trial judge at 4:20 p.m. ET.
Judge Juan Merchan read the note aloud in court and said: “We, the jury, have reached a verdict. We would like to have an additional 30 minutes to fill out the form, if possible.” “
The jury deliberated for less than 10 hours over two days before issuing notice. Ahead of the announcement, Trump, his lawyers, prosecutors and reporters expected the jury to be dismissed at 4:30 p.m.
Minutes after the announcement, Trump sat in the courtroom with his arms crossed and a look of resignation on his face.
Trump, 77, has been charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the case related to his then-personal attorney Michael Cohen’s alleged pre-2016 election scandal involving porn star Stormy Daniels. (Stormy Daniels) paid $130,000.
sentenced to manhattan supreme court Hours earlier, jurors heard a retelling of testimony from Cohen and former Enquirer publisher David Pecker, as well as some of the legal instructions they received from Silent on Wednesday.
Trump is the first former U.S. president to be charged with a crime.
The records at issue in the case involve reimbursements made to Cohen by Trump and the Trump Organization.
Cohen testified during the trial that Trump directed him to pay Daniels before the 2016 election to prevent her story from harming his presidential campaign.
Republican presidential candidate Trump also faces three other pending criminal cases.
In two of the cases, Trump was charged with crimes related to his attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.
One of the cases is in federal court in Washington, D.C., and the other is in a Georgia state court in Atlanta.
Trump was charged in federal court in Florida with crimes related to retaining classified government records after leaving the White House in January 2021 and trying to prevent federal officials from retrieving those documents.
Trump also faces a civil judgment in Manhattan Supreme Court requiring him to pay more than $450 million in damages to the state of New York for his liability for business fraud involving the Trump Organization and the valuation of its real estate assets.
He also faces two civil defamation verdicts from federal juries, awarding nearly $90 million to author E. Jean Carroll, who testified that Trump was in a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s. Raped her in the locker room.
Trump is appealing rulings in three civil cases.
This is developing news. Please check back for updates.
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