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At 11:29 AM on Wednesday, May 29, Justice Juan Merchan asked jurors in a Lower Manhattan courthouse to begin their deliberations in Donald Trump’s hush money/falsified business records trial — marking the first time in the United States’ 248-year history that jurors are evaluating criminal charges against a former president. Two of the 12 jurors now deliberating Trump’s fate are attorneys, which is unusual for a criminal case. During an MSNBC appearance, jury consultant and former prosecutor Paul Callan weighed in on the effect that those attorneys could have on deliberations. Callan told MSNB…

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