She didn’t need to trick anyone. The jury had their instructions from the judge and EJ’s lawyers. It was Manhattan in a civil case. There is no way they would NOT vote against TRump and the judge wouldn’t have let them anyway. They judge didn’t even allow any exculpatory evidence to be called by Trump’s lawyers.
“They judge didn’t even allow any exculpatory evidence to be called by Trump’s lawyers.”
The best exculpatory evidence would’ve been Trump’s testimony, under oath, denying the accusation. (Unsworn denials at rallies and on Fox News don’t count.) Trump’s problem was that, in the first trial, his lawyers advised him not to testify. So the jury heard one side of the story while Trump, instead of presenting the other side, sat there mute.
At the second trial, the judge applied the long-standing rule that you can’t re-litigate matters already decided. The courts don’t want to be plagued with endless demands for do-overs. The first jury’s verdict that Trump had committed sexual assault was binding on the second jury.