A hung jury in former President Donald Trump's New York criminal trial appears to be a real possibility.
Only one skeptical juror is needed to create a hung jury that would result in a mistrial.
Trump's legal team has focused on one juror who may prevent a guilty verdict, The Bulwark's Marc Caputo reported.
"There are eight people on that jury who definitely hate Trump. If there's one person who doesn't, it's [this] juror," one court attendee told Caputo.
Caputo further described the juror.
"As the trial has progressed since April 15, these sources relate, this juror has appeared to nod along in seeming accordance with the defense at times," Caputo wrote. "On other occasions, the juror has seemingly reacted favorably to and made eye contact with Trump's congressional surrogates who began joining him in court in recent weeks."
The reporter added that the juror "lit up" when Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, and some of Trump's other high-profile supporters appeared at the courthouse.
The former president's allies are not the only people who have focused on the juror.
"There's one juror that people are worried about and I share the worry," Harry Litman, a Democrat former Justice Department official, wrote Tuesday on X. "Can't identify her or him per judge's orders but seems less engaged and slightly irritable."
Still, trying to predict how jury's will vote is tricky.
"You just never know what people are thinking or what they're gonna do," one Trump insider said, The Bulwark reported. "Yeah, the [juror] looks friendly. But maybe [the juror is] just doing that to [expletive] with us before they vote to convict."
Jury deliberations are expected to begin Wednesday after the panel receives instructions from the judge on the law governing the case and what they can take into account in evaluating the former president's guilt or innocence.
Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, charges which are punishable by up to four years in prison. He has denied all wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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