Joshua J. Friedman: The jury is asking for another 30 minutes to fill out the jury forms (via Inner City Press)

Exciting boring update in Trump trial—the jury has a note!

@fleerultra.bsky.social Get ready for the cable pundits to go wild with speculation

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."

SECOND JURY NOTE: "We the jury request to rehear the judge's instructions." (via Anna Bower, Lawfare)

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.

Judge Merchan says that the jury can work late tomorrow if they wish, though not past 6 p.m. (via Anna Bower & Tyler McBrien of Lawfare)

JUSTICE MERCHAN: We received another note. He reads it. The note describes what the jury wants to hear from jury instructions. Justice Merchan says he interprets the note as the jurors wanting to hear page 7-35 of the jury instructions. (via Anna Bower, Lawfare)

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Justice Merchan says the jurors also requested headphones for audio. (This suggests the jurors want to re-listen to some or all of the audio recordings that were admitted into evidence.) (via Anna Bower, Lawfare)

Those of you who have been following since yesterday will be relieved to know that Judge Merchan has now confirmed for the record that the jurors' laptop does NOT have Wi-Fi access

The jurors, having now heard their instructions again and the requested transcript excerpts, have filed out of Judge Merchan’s courtroom to resume their deliberations (via Anna Bower, Lawfare)

Yesterday Judge Merchan told jurors that they can work slightly late today—up to 6 p.m.—if they’d like

JUSTICE MERCHAN: We received a note. "WE THE JURY HAVE A VERDICT." (via Anna Bower, Lawfare)

The jury is asking for another 30 minutes to fill out the jury forms (via Inner City Press)

Before leaving the bench, Justice Merchan says to the gallery: "Let there be no outbursts or exclamations of any kind." (via Tyler McBrien, Lawfare)

He meant "skeets"

"All rise!" The jurors take their seats. (via Tyler McBrien, Lawfare)

*****GUILTY ON COUNT ONE***** (via Adam Klasfeld)

*****GUILTY ON COUNTS 1, 2, 3, ... ***** (via Tyler McBrien)

*****GUILTY ON COUNTS 1–9 AND COUNTING***** (via Tyler McBrien)

YES MORE MORE

GO ON

Stop it Joshua! I can’t masturbate that fast

OMG guilty on all counts!!!

lotta guilties coming in

weeeeeee

YES! #lockhimup

I also feel like I should stand up for this

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AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

AAAAAAAAAHH

CNN isn't loading for me. Traffic's gotta be massive. Of course, it doesn't help that my connection is DSL.

I'm sorry. I refuse.

One small skeet for a man, One giant skeet for Bluesky.

First... bsky.app/profile/nih-...

I know what the verdict will be.

If I were a judge, I would have wanted to say that exact thing for my entire career.

And he knows there is no chance there won’t be!

Then he can say “One more outburst like that, and I’ll clear this courtroom.” Which is the other thing he’s always wanted to say.

😂😂😂

Could also have an iteration of the Pacino rant from “and justice for all” at some point

Hoooo boy grandpa was a judge and had one even better

Citing the ruling on the skyline would provide an easy way to identify my grandfather and therefore me

I’m not lying I’m just bursting at the seams to tell it because I can’t

Do tell.

YOU'RE NOT THE JUSTICE OF ME

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Trump trial live: Judge Merchan has returned to say the jury has a verdict - BBC Newswww.bbc.com The 12 New Yorkers have reached a unanimous verdict in the first criminal trial of a former US president.

It's probably good that it came so fast right. Like that probably means guilty?

WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU

Yeah, good luck with that.

Are they hyperventilating on cable?

No cheering? No break dancing? No scotch and cigars? Well, shit

I like that guy, from what I've read about him

Paperwork is a pain in the ass for everybody. Am I right?

You ever have to fill out the same form 34 times and know that if you fuck it up, everyone on Earth will hear about it?

*frantically writing the name, "TRVMP"*

TRVFEFE

Imagine you're sitting in a room with 11 semi-strangers knowing what you're about to write down is gonna be in articles, textbooks and movies for the rest of your life

oop gotta feed the meter brb

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