The jury note contains 4 requests: (1) David Pecker testimony regarding phone convo during investor meeting, (2) Pecker Testimony related to McDougal's life rights agreement, (3) Pecker testimony regarding Trump Tower meeting, and (4) Cohen testimony regarding Trump Tower meeting (via Anna Bower)
Kyle Cheney jumps on the speculation train early, but why not:
"Apply all the caveats here, but first instinct is this is not welcome news for Trump. Prosecutors spent a lot of their lengthy close focusing on value of Pecker's testimony. This is the roadmap they asked jurors to follow."
Judge Merchan asks if the laptop the jurors were given containing exhibits into evidence has Wi-Fi access. When told that it does, he asks if the Wi-Fi can be disabled. (via Anna Bower)
NO VERDICT TODAY: Judge Merchan sends the jury home, since the court is working on compiling the testimony the jury asked for, which he says will take 30 min to read back. Tomorrow deliberations will restart at 9:30 a.m. with the readback of the transcript, plus the jury instructions.
How does that happen? Or was the answer yes because all laptops have WiFi and it may have actually been off/disabled?
Maybe this is just my private sector IT perspective, but laptops can be locked down in so many ways, it’s silly to me to think they could accidentally give them one with WiFi. 😂
It took an hour, but I believe he read them twice? Also, there's some question over whether they want the entire instructions read back to them or only a portion
Memory so vivid it is almost a flashback. “On the one hand, they are thinking about the case, as I asked them to. On the other hand, this stuff they asked for is not what we want them talking about.”
Apparently! That's unusual; generally defendants can leave and get a sandwich or something, as long as they're close enough to run back on short notice. @mitchellepner.bsky.social thinks it's because of the security issues with getting Trump in/out of the courthouse.
This just makes me long for the days where we could get multiple weeks out of the kerning in a single document, because back then there was no chaos demon politician saying brand-new deranged things every other day.
During his testimony, even the Very Serious media outlets had copious double entendre headlines. Can someone simply not say Jurors Ask Four Questions About Trump’s Pecker? This is why we can’t have nice things.
