<p>The presiding judge in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>&#8216;s hush money trial in New York dismissed the jury for the rest of the day on Wednesday, meaning a verdict will have to wait.</p>
<p>Jurors are expected to resume deliberations at 9:30 a.m. ET on Thursday.</p>
<p>In the hours leading up to the dismissal, jurors made two requests.</p>
<p>The first note they sent to the judge was to ask for transcripts of witness testimony from former Trump lawyer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michael-cohen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Cohen</a> and former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker.</p>
<p>A second request asked to rehear the judge&#8217;s jury instructions, which is <a href="https://x.com/AnnaBower/status/1795909272020086940" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expected</a> to be resolved on Thursday.</p>
<p>The trial, which began last month, has featured jury selection, opening arguments, testimony from nearly two dozen witnesses, and closing arguments. Jury deliberations began on Wednesday.</p>
<p>At the heart of the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alvin-bragg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alvin Bragg</a> are <a href="https://manhattanda.org/district-attorney-bragg-announces-34-count-felony-indictment-of-former-president-donald-j-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">34 felony counts</a> of falsifying business records to conceal damaging information around the 2016 election.</p>
<p>Trump is accused of improperly masking reimbursements to repay his former lawyer, Cohen, for a $130,000 payment to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/stormy-daniels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stormy Daniels</a> in exchange for her silence on an alleged extramarital affair in 2006 by classifying them as legal expenses.</p>
<p>If a guilty verdict is ultimately dealt, Trump will become the first former U.S. president to have been convicted of a crime. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges and denied the affair with Stormy Daniels.</p>
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<p>Legal experts <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/29/trump-if-convicted-hush-money-trial-new-york/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doubt</a> the 77-year-old Trump will end up being incarcerated, though efforts have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/secret-service-prepares-for-possibility-of-trump-going-to-jail-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly been made</a> to coordinate with the Secret Service just in case.</p>
<p>The presiding judge is <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/28/trump-merchan-sentencing-prison-00151613" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expected</a> to schedule a separate hearing to determine a sentence. Possible alternatives to imprisonment include probation or community service.</p>
<p>Trump has also been trying to fend off three other criminal matters ahead of a potential 2020 rematch against President Joe Biden in November&#8217;s White House contest.</p>
<p>Biden&#8217;s campaign hosted an event outside the courthouse at which actor Robert De Niro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-responds-to-de-niros-perturbed-courthouse-presser-looked-so-pathetic-and-sad?topStoryPosition=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that American freedoms “will perish from the Earth” if Trump wins the election.</p>
<p>Some last-minute <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/legal-experts-slam-judge-in-trump-hush-money-case-over-outrageous-jury-instructions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">controversy</a> began on Wednesday with the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/29/nyregion/judge-trump-hush-money-trial-jury-instructions.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jury instructions</a> that Merchan gave right before deliberations began, prompting Trump to say the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-blasts-rigged-trial-after-jury-instructions-mother-theresa-couldnt-beat-these-charges?topStoryPosition=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trial was &#8220;rigged.&#8221;</a></p>

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