Trump verdict watch: Jury dismissed for the day, will keep deliberating Thursday

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New York — The judge in Donald Trump‘s criminal hush money trial dismissed jurors for the day on Wednesday after more than four hours of deliberations over their verdict for the former president.

Deliberations will resume again at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday. Before leaving, the jurors requested to rehear Judge Juan Merchan’s instructions about how to consider the evidence in the case.

Former President Donald Trump gestures as he walks to the courtroom during his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court, Wednesday, May 29, 2024, in New York. (Yuki Iwamura/Pool Photo via AP)

The jury also asked to rehear testimony from former American Media CEO David Pecker and Trump’s ex-attorney Michael Cohen. Merchan said the court was still procuring the requested testimony as of 4:09 p.m. local time and that it would take approximately 30 minutes to read back the jury instructions.

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