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Madeline Halpert
Reporting from New York
Only one juror needs to believe he isn’t guilty for Trump to avoid a conviction.
A host of factors could disrupt the prosecutors’ case. For one, there is the credibility of Cohen, a key witness in the case who is also a convicted felon.
Prosecutors will also have to work hard to prove the links between Trump’s business records classification and a larger goal of influencing the 2016 election to jurors.
Members of a jury are often unpredictable, says Diane Kiesel, a former New York Supreme Court judge and Manhattan prosecutor.
“It only takes one person to decide that the [prosecutors] have not met their burden,” she says. “The [prosecutors] have 12 people to convince.”