Just before jurors in Donald Trump’s trial for falsifying business records went into deliberations on Wednesday, New York Justice Juan Merchan gave the jury records an excellent roadmap to their verdict. Of his instructions on the law, five stood out —along with two he did not give. Now that the powerful evidence the prosecution produced sits in the frame of legal instructions, it’s easier to see why Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg believed from the start that a guilty verdict was more likely than not. With juries, of course, one never knows.
1. The “other crime”:
