I found a more detailed report than Klasfeld's. I wanted to use someone else and found this.
Anna Bower
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At the hearing, known as a “pre-charge” conference, Justice Merchan will hear argument on the parties’ proposed “jury charges,” meaning the instructions provided to the jury before they deliberate on the verdict in Trump’s case.
The jurors are the finder of fact. It’s up to them to look at the evidence presented and determine the facts.
But it’s up to the judge to explain the law—to provide instructions on what the law means and what the jury must find in order to convict.
All of which is why the pre-charge conference is so important.
And, while both the prosecution and defense have submitted proposed jury instructions, those proposals aren’t yet publicly docketed.
Still, there’s a few things that we...will be watching for during the hearing.
(1) Will the jurors consider only the felony counts for falsification of business records, or will they have an option to consider the "lesser included" misdemeanor charge?
2) The felony charges require that Trump caused the falsification of business records with intent to commit, aid, or conceal another crime.
But do the jurors have to unanimously agree on *which* crime Trump intended to commit, aid, or conceal?
https://lawfaremedia.org/article/what-m ... %2520doubt.
3) Prosecutors must prove that Trump made or caused the entry of false records.
But what does “made or caused” mean? Is it sufficient if the jury finds that the entry of false records was a “reasonably foreseeable” result of Trump’s conduct?
There are other issues that will likely be raised -- involving, for example, how Justice Merchan will instruct the jurors on FECA, accomplice liability, and so on
Things are now getting started in courtroom 1530.
We start with argument on the proposed instructions regarding the Federal Election Campaign Act.