Trump Organization Jury Is Considering a Momentous Decision

The young woman spent a month sitting in the jury box of the Trump Organization trial, evaluating witnesses and poring over documents that purported to show whether Donald J. Trump’s company was guilty of felonies related to a tax fraud scheme by its executives.

Then, on Monday, the day the jury began to deliberate, she was dismissed, along with three other alternate jurors who sat through the trial as substitutes in case one of the original 12 had been unable to continue.

In an interview Monday evening, the woman, who asked to not be named because she was concerned about potential harassment, said that during the weekslong trial the prosecution proved its case. The alternate juror said she believed she would have delivered a guilty verdict if she was to deliberate.

And on Tuesday afternoon, as the verdict from the 12 jurors who deliberated for over a day in a Manhattan courthouse was read aloud, it appears they agreed with her: Donald J. Trump’s family real estate business was convicted on all counts.

The alternate juror concluded that Allen H. Weisselberg, who was the main architect of the scheme while serving as the company’s chief financial officer, did not act only to enrich himself, but that his actions were intended to benefit the Trump Organization as well. Under New York law, the prosecution had to prove that Mr. Weisselberg did not act solely in his own interests.

The woman said that she spoke with her fellow alternates after they were dismissed, and that they shared her views. She noted that, like her, they were younger than the other jurors, and might have been more likely to see things similarly.

But she said the defense team’s arguments didn’t convince her of the corporation’s innocence. In fact, she said she found the defense’s style to have been bullying and, at times, inappropriate.

The defense’s refrain, “Weisselberg did it for Weisselberg,” was not convincing, the alternate juror said. Instead, she agreed with the prosecution that the scheme was complicated and couldn’t be distilled into one phrase.

She and the other alternates were told upon being sent home that they could discuss the case and the trial freely with the public for the first time.

The remaining 12 jurors began deliberating Monday just before noon and continued into Tuesday.

They had been meeting in private, away from the 15th-floor Manhattan courtroom where the prosecution, the defense and the press waited anxiously for the sound of the buzzer that meant the jury wanted to communicate.

The jurors sounded it four times — three times to ask the judge to review some of the 17 counts against the Trump Organization corporations on trial.

At 3:42 they returned with their verdict.

Lola Fadulu contributed reporting. Susan C. Beachy contributed research.