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Trump trial live: Hush money was 'pure' election fraud, prosecution says - BBC News Trump trial: Hush money was 'pure' election fraud, prosecution says - BBC News
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The stakes of today's opening statements were very high, according to Harvard Law professor Ronald S Sullivan Jr. We are pausing our live coverage for now, and will be back tomorrow for day two of Donald Trump's criminal trial into hush-money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
"Opening statements often frame the entire rest of the trial," he told the BBC earlier this morning. We're expecting David Pecker, who was the National Enquirer publisher before the 2016 election, to be back on the stand first thing, as his testimony was cut short today.
"Some studies suggest up to 80% of jurors make up their minds at the end of openings, and most of them - the overwhelming majority - retain that same opinion throughout the trial and vote in that way during deliberations." For a full wrap of what happened in court today, you can read this article from Phil McCausland.
Those findings are backed by what Sullivan says are the concepts of primacy and recency. It means that people remember best what they hear first and what they hear last. This live page was edited by Brandon Livesay and Tiffany Wertheimer. Sam Cabral was the writer, and we had Kayla Epstein, Phil McCausland and Nada Tawfik reporting from the court.
As a result, he said, lawyers must "start with a bang" so as to capture the attention and imagination of each juror. See you tomorrow.
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