Criminal Trial

The tense tick, tick, tick of jury deliberations at Trump’s first criminal trial

CNN — The mood flips from torpor to high tension in a second on the high-security 15th floor of the grimy old Manhattan courthouse where a jury will resume deliberations on Donald Trump’s fate Thursday morning. Seven men and five women jurors, headed by a foreperson who grew up in Ireland, were deep into a …

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Egypt Independent May 30, 2024

Trump braces for final act of his historic criminal trial

CNN — Donald Trump’s first criminal trial has arrived at its dramatic final act with lawyers for both sides primed on Tuesday to hammer home their cases before jurors consider a verdict that could make history. The summations mark the climax of a trial that started more than a month ago. They are expected to …

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Egypt Independent May 28, 2024

Opening statements to show the stark personal and political stakes of Trump’s first criminal trial

CNN — Donald Trump was once, and may soon be again, the most powerful man in the world. But on Monday, his diminished reality as a criminal defendant will become clear in humbling fashion during opening statements in his first criminal trial. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee has long chafed at the constraints of the …

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Egypt Independent April 22, 2024