Rielle Hunter

In 2011, a former U.S. senator was charged in a case that resembled the one being pursued against Donald J. Trump. The prosecution did not end in a conviction.

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Now that the trial has ended, John Edwards’s family, the jurors and others are moving on, but there is still a chance that the case will be pursued further.

Rielle Hunter, who had an affair with John Edwards and later gave birth to their daughter, has written a book titled “What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter and Me.”

Jurors from the John Edwards trial appeared on morning network television shows to talk about their deliberations. Some jurors said they believed Mr. Edwards was guilty but the government did not make its case.

The lone verdict in the federal campaign finance case against former Senator John Edwards came on a charge involving a $200,000 check from the heiress Rachel Mellon.

The two lives of John Edwards have collided spectacularly in the federal courthouse where the government is trying him on charges of campaign finance fraud and conspiracy.

The defense in John Edwards’s federal corruption trial has rested without calling Mr. Edwards, his daughter or his mistress to the stand.

A defense witness testified Tuesday that the aide who helped John Edwards hide an affair and the child it produced spent more of the cover-up money on his own family than on Mr. Edwards’s mistress.

A former chairman of the Federal Election Commission was prepared to say donations used to hide former Senator John Edwards’s affair did not qualify as campaign contributions.