Legal experts Bonnie Sard and Jeremy Saland offered insights on the ongoing jury deliberations in the Manhattan criminal trial of former President Donald Trump on Thursday, as the trial entered its second day of deliberations.

With no verdict Wednesday, the focus of the trial now shifts to requests made by the jury, including revisiting parts of the judge's legal instructions and testimony from key witnesses such as David Pecker, former publisher of the National Enquirer, and Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen.

"I think the jury is trying to assess the role of the former president and the role of Michael Cohen in all of this," said Sard, a former Manhattan assistant district attorney. "They're trying to see if there's enough corroboration for what [Cohen] had to say regarding Trump's role in this catch-and-kill scheme and ultimately, in the false documents."

Saland, a criminal defense attorney and former Manhattan assistant district attorney, also clarified a portion of the judge's instructions that stated, "Although you must conclude unanimously the defendant conspired to promote or prevent the election of any person to public office by unlawful means, you need not be unanimous as to what those unlawful means were."

"An example would be a burglary. The purpose of that trespass is the same. Apartment trespass is a trespass but the crime you're committing could be to steal something, could be to damage something, to commit a sex crime. It doesn't matter because you don't have to prove that piece beyond a reasonable doubt," he said.

Meanwhile, Sard explained the complexity of deliberations.

"Here, where you have 34 counts, one might assume that they would say, 'Well look, where are these false business records and were they created in furtherance or to conceal another crime?' And then go through them one by one," she said.

Saland said the nature of the case may push deliberations into next week.

"The gravity and magnitude of this case I'm sure it's not lost on them," he said. "The ripple effect is going to be enormous no matter what they decide."