Joe Biden tells Black voters ‘I need you’ to beat Trump in campaign rally in Philadelphia – as it happened
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What if the jury convicts Donald Trump? It would present an unprecedented test of America's political system, and also the bureaucracy that deals with convicts in New York state, the Guardian's Sam Levine reports:
If a Manhattan jury convicts Donald Trump on any of the 34 counts of falsifying business records in the hush-money case, the immediate next question will be what punishment the former president should receive.
Donald Trump's criminal hush-money trial in New York inched towards its conclusion on Wednesday with jury deliberations starting just before 11.30am local time.
Before the start of deliberations, Judge Juan Merchan instructed jurors . Merchan's directives on the law were intended to guide jurors about how they are supposed to weigh the case.
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