After more than nine hours of deliberations, a jury of Donald Trump's peers found him guilty on Thursday of 34 felony counts over the cover-up of "hush money" paid in the run-up to the 2016 election to buy the silence of a porn actor who alleged an extramarital encounter.

The presumptive Republican nominee was mostly subject to the same legal proceedings as any criminal defendant in Manhattan, but his conviction is unlike any other in US history, and throws up a number of unprecedented legal and political questions ahead of the election in November.