You must have missed the “Monetizing Your Embarrassing Client Experiences 101” class at law school

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Slowguy

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Have the lawyers conferenced with the judges and decided on if the jury will be given the option to decide on the individual charges or is it all or nothing?

It is clear that Trump is guilty on the misdemeanors but the criminal campaign charges could be a bit of a stretch, I expect a hung jury on those.

Thanks. That’s an important question. I searched a bit and I can’t find anything indicating that they can find him guilty on some and not guilty on others. All of the “what if” articles address guilty, not guilty, directed verdict, an appeal… but not a “split.”

Sorry if I proposed a road that doesn’t exist.

Usually it’s a jury decision on each count in the indictment. But I don’t know NY state law.

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I have not seen the jury instructions or verdict form yet. As of yesterday, the judge was still working on them.

The indictment has 34 counts, one for each business record. But, there are both misdemeanor and felony charges for each business record, so potentially 68 outcomes.

But, rather than repeat everything 68 times, the form might ask whether they find the elements of a misdemeanor (and separately for a felony) and, if yes, have the jury identity which of the 34 records that involves.

Would the statute of limitations questions be part of jury instructions?

I don't think so. There is no obvious factual question specifically relating to SOL that the jury needs to decide. If the jury finds that there was no felony concealment, so the SOL is just the 2-years for a misdemeanor, that could have implications for any SOL defense (really, for appeal). But, that would follow from the jury's findings on the felony concealment issue, and would not require a separate instruction specifically about SOL issues.