The jury has had instruction and is now deliberating…..
A jury began deliberations Tuesday at the civil trial where former President Donald Trump is accused of raping and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.
Deliberations by the nine-member jury began at 11:50 a.m. ET after Judge Lewis Kaplan gave the panel final instructions and a verdict form in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
If jurors unanimously determine that Carroll proved either of her claims, they will decide whether to award her monetary damages.
There are six men and three women on the jury.
Carroll, 79, alleges in a lawsuit that Trump sexually assaultedher in a dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s. She also claims he defamed her last fall when he said she had made up the account. Trump called the allegations “a complete con job,” and said that she was not his “type.”…