The jury in Donald Trump’s rape trial began deliberating late Tuesday morning to decide if the former president sexually assaulted the advice columnist E Jean Carroll and then defamed her by denying it.
For Carroll to win her civil claim for sexual battery, the jury of six men and three women must reach a unanimous verdict based on “a preponderance of the evidence”, meaning that she is more likely than not to be telling the truth, a lower standard than for a criminal trial. Their deliberations began just before noon.
