In addition to witness testimony, Hoffinger mentions there will be quite a few documents in this case, and "documents don't lie." Anyone have an issue with spending a lot of time with documents, spreadsheets, emails, texts?
B364 says he likes to read textbooks and "how-to's" so he actually enjoys reading long documents. With that, Hoffinger is done for the prosecution. Blanche steps up, and apologizes for being the last person to talk to them after a long day.
He starts with B352, the real estate developer, and asks if he has a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Trump, what he "brings into this courtroom"? Juror responds that this is a "pretty loaded question"—there are things he disagrees with, things that were done well.
But he refuses to categorize his opinion as favorable or unfavorable.
Now to B364, same question about particular views of Trump outside of this courtroom, even before he was a candidate for president. "Oh boy," he says, saying rhetorically that he's a New Yorker. "Going back to Central Park," he says apparenntly referencing the Central Park Five.
Blanche now reiterates the presumption of innocence, burden of proof, and proof beyond a reasonable doubt. All jurors say they understand. Now onto a question about social media posting: one juror posts about his kids, one juror calls himself a "repost king."
To the repost king, Blanche says "I appreciate that."
The jurors have been asked to step outside while the attorneys review their notes.
At the buzzer, we have our seventh juror: Seat 4 (B269) is Juror 7.
Merchan again says to this one additional juror now that he's hopeful that by Monday morning, "We'll be ready to go." He gives the boilerplate instructions and says, "I'll see you Monday, thank you."
5:37 p.m. and we are adjourned for the day. Hey, 7 out of 18 ain't bad. See you all Thursday morning.
@TylerMcBrien GREAT JOB ALL DAY!! Thank you.
@TylerMcBrien Thank you! Great job today. Appreciate your reporting.