First and foremost, I want to thank the jury for its service.

Jurors perform a fundamental civic duty.

Their service is literally the cornerstone of our judicial system.

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg opening the Brian Larisheel this morning.

After the jury announced its 34 verdicts of guilty in the case of Donald Trump,

falsifying business records to corrupt the 2016 presidential election.

After Trump complained about Bragg and the judge,

the DA reminded everyone there that it was the jury who heard the evidence and came to their verdicts. So now what happens? An appeal to be sure, a sentencing date of July 11th, so could Trump

actually be sent to prison four days before the start of the Republican Convention?

Another trial, by the way, begins this coming Monday. This is worth noting. Right after the first trial of a former president on criminal charges comes the first trial of a sitting president's son, Hunter Biden, faces cover-up charges too.

Trump's was basically a cover-up case. In Hunter Biden's case, covering up that he had been

addicted to drugs when applying for a gun permit in Delaware. That one is a federal case

brought by the Biden Justice Department against the president's own son.

So let's talk about what happened in that Manhattan courtroom and what happens next with me.

University of Chicago law professor Aziz Huck, a scholar of constitutional law, criminal procedure, and the federal courts,

and author of books including How to Save a Constitutional Democracy, criminal procedure, and the federal courts, and author of books, including How to Save a

a Constitutional Democracy published in 2018. And before we say hello to Professor Huck,

and before we open the phones to everyone, because obviously this is a very public moment for

members of the public to say things

and ask questions and you'll have plenty of opportunities during the course of the show.

But here's a special invitation to one person who may or may not be listening right now.

There was one juror who, during jury selection, listed WNYC as among the places they get their news.

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