It all comes down to this.
On Wednesday, the jury in Donald Trump’s hush money trial will receive instructions from Judge Juan Merchan on the relevant law in the case. They are then expected to begin deliberations in which the 12-member panel will try to reach a unanimous decision about whether or not to convict the former president.
Exactly how long it will take jurors to reach a verdict remains anyone’s guess. They’ll have to weigh the conflicting narratives put forward by the prosecution and Trump’s defense team about the current presumptive Republican nominee’s involvement in a scheme to silence a porn star’s claims of a sexual encounter with Trump ahead of the 2016 election.