The jury now deliberating Paul Manafort’s bank fraud case asked the judge a clarifying question that might concern the prosecutors

Dana Verkouteren via AP

• Jury deliberations began Thursday in the Virginia bank and tax fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
• The jury sent a note to the judge asking for clarification about four topics, including a definition of the term, “reasonable doubt,” the standard to convict in a criminal trial.
• Legal experts wrote on Twitter that the note could indicate a “compromise verdict” in which the jury convicts Manafort on some charges but acquits him on others. 

Jury deliberations began Thursday morning in the trial of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, but a verdict was not reached at the end of the first day. 

After a two-week trial in which federal prosecutors from special counsel Robert Mueller’s team and US attorneys in  Eastern District of Virginia tried Manafort on 18 federal charges of tax and bank fraud, both sides have delivered closing arguments and judge T.S. Ellis instructed the jury to begin deliberating at around 10:00 a.m. 

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