evidence: To find Trump guilty of felony-level falsification of business documents, the jury must unanimously find that Trump falsified the documents in order to commit or conceal a separate crime. But the jurors do not all have to agree on what that separate crime was, Justice Juan Merchan ruled. Trump’s defense argued that, to issue a felony-level conviction, all jurors should be required to agree on the "predicate" crime. Prosecutors initially laid out four possible predicate crimes, one of which the judge ruled out before trial. The remaining possibilities are a tax crime and violations of state or federal election law. Defense lawyer Emil Bove argued that jurors should have to agree on a single predicate offense. But prosecutor Matthew Colangelo said the law doesn't require that. "The importance of the case is not a basis for deviating from the standard application of the law," Colangelo said. "There’s no reason to rewrite the law for this case." Merchan agreed with the prosecution and said he won't impose the requirement the defense requested. In other words: If some jurors believe that Trump falsified business documents solely to cover up a tax crime, while others believe that he falsified business documents solely to cover up an election crime, the jury can still convict Trump on the felony-level falsifying-documents charges, despite disagreeing on the predicate crimes. CORRECTION: An earlier version of this post misstated how many potential predicate crimes the prosecution initially proposed.