Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro,' a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MSNBC, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.
Jury selection completed Friday in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, with six alternates now picked in addition to the 12-person regular jury. Selection got off to a slow start Monday, picked up on Tuesday with the seating of seven jurors, shrunk to five on Thursday morning but then ended the day with the full regular jury and one alternate. The completion of the jury on Friday clears the way for opening statements on Monday.
The burden is on the prosecution to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records. Bragg alleges that Trump skewed those records to cover up the reimbursement to his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, who paid Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election to silence her about an earlier affair she says she had with Trump. The defendant — and presumptive GOP nominee — denies the affair, as well.
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