Donald Trump has had his day in court - so what next?

The process is likely to take many months, with a trial unlikely to start until next year.

That means the former president could be in court again right around the same time his campaign for the November 2024 presidential election is kicking into high gear.

Until then, this is what the court schedule looks like so far:

• 9 May: According to New York law, the deadline for prosecution to file discovery, which is the evidence each side will use to present its case
• 8 June: According to New York law, the deadline for the defence to file its discovery

• 8 August: This is the deadline Trump's team has to file their motions, a legal term for a request made to the judge to make a decision about a specific issue. Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina said he plans to file a motion to dismiss the case altogether
• 19 September: The deadline for prosecution to respond to motions
• 4 December: Judge Juan Merchan will rule on the motions

Simon Atkinson
Reporting from Florida

"There he is."

Lots of excitement on the perimeter road of Palm Beach International Airport as the 757 jet in distinctive Trump livery landed.

About 50 of his supporters have turned out here, standing on the side of an eight-lane highway.

Several tell me they are here to support “their president”.

Among them is Mary-Beth Kowalsky, who says she feels “sick to her stomach” at today’s events in New York.

“They’re out to get us, they’re out to get us!” she says.

I ask: "Who are?"

“The left,” she says.

“I never thought I’d live to see the day they did this to any president."

As Trump's motorcade whisks him away from the airport towards Mar-a-Lago he waves to the supporters in the side of the boundary road from his black SUV."I love you" shouts one woman. "You are my president."

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The case against Donald Trump is focused on a payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels. However, the indictment also mentions another woman.

According to background documents, a payment was made on Mr Trump's behalf to "Woman 1" - who evidence suggests is Karen McDougal.

McDougal is an ex-Playboy model and, like Daniels, claimed she had an affair with Trump.

She said it lasted 10 months. Trump has denied it ever happened.

Read more here about what we know about McDougal and how she's involved in this case.

Donald Trump has landed back in Florida after appearing in court in New York today.

He arrived at Palm Beach International Airport a short while ago and will return to Mar-a-Lago, where he is expected to deliver remarks to supporters.

We will bring you his first public comments, which are scheduled for 20:15 local time (01:15 BST).

Madeline Halpert
BBC News in New York

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While former President Donald Trump may have been the most famous face to make an appearance at a New York court today, he was among a long list of people journeying to the building to face charges.

According to a public list at the courthouse, at least a hundred other cases were scheduled to be heard at the criminal court in lower Manhattan before the arrival of the former president.Some were facing misdemeanor charges for crimes ranging from menacing displays of weapons to damage to public or private property. Others were facing more serious felonies, accused of crimes such as drug possession, larceny, attempted robberies and even attempted murder.

None are likely to have received the same treatment as the former president, who arrived in a motorcade and was escorted by Secret Service agents.

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We've just brought you details of the 34-count indictment against Donald Trump and his arraignment.

Now here's a quick explanation of where the case could go from here.

Trump is accused of falsifying business records.

New York prosecutors allege the former president made false statements on New York records and violated election laws.

The charges are related to a hush-money payment to a porn star in the days before the 2016 presidential election.

Trump pleaded not guilty to all counts earlier today.

The charges he faces are all Class E felonies - the lowest category of felony offence in the US state.

Class E felonies carry a maximum sentence of four years in prison, although legal experts say Trump is most likely to be fined - if convicted - and that time behind bars is highly unlikely.

Trump, who is running for president for a third time, can continue his campaign if he chooses.

There is no US law that prevents a candidate who is found guilty of a crime from campaigning for, and serving as, president.

Mike Wendling
Reporting along Florida State Road A1A

“It’s what you might expect from some South American dictatorship,” says Dennis Crow.

I met the retiree while he was out walking his dog near Florida's A1A road.

To get some reaction away from the media storm I've spent today going up and down this scenic highway, which runs along most communities along the state's Atlantic coast.

Dennis, a Florida native, says he’s no Trump loyalist. He quite likes the current state governor, Ron DeSantis, a Republican expected to challenge Trump in the 2024 presidential race.

But he largely agreed with Trump's policies while the former president was in office, and disagrees with the decision to indict him.

“I’m kind of a political nerd, I’ve been following politics since high school,” he says.

“Trump is obnoxious, I never really liked his personality, but I never thought I’d see something like this.”

Despite his outrage, today’s events won’t sway his support.

Dennis says he looks at policies, not personalities. But one thing’s certain - he won’t vote for President Biden, he says.

It's been a full day of news, so here is what you need to know if you're just catching up.

Donald Trump has been charged with 34 felony criminal counts of falsifying business records.

In a Manhattan courtroom earlier today, Trump pleaded not guilty on all charges. His legal team say the indictment shows that "the rule of law died" in the US.

Here are the latest developments:

• Speaking after details of the charges were released, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg alleged Trump repeatedly made false statements on New York business records
• Bragg said New York officials "can not and will not normalise serious criminal conduct"
• The charges focus on a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. She claims to have had an affair with Trump, which he denies
• Republican Senator Mitt Romney, a fierce critic of Trump, nonetheless criticised the indictment, saying it was "stretched to reach felony criminal charges in order to fit a political agenda"
• Trump did not comment entering or exiting court but he will speak at 20:15 local time (01:15BST) from his Mar-a-Lago estate
• Before getting on his return flight to Florida, he posted online on his Truth Social account saying the "hearing was shocking to many" and arguing there was "no case".

Stick with us for the latest developments.

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We've been having a look at what members of the Republican party have been saying. Here are two powerful lawmakers giving their thoughts on Tuesday's events., starting with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

And Elise Stefanik, a key ally of the former president said this in a statement:

Kayla Epstein
Reporting from the courthouse

I watched the hour-long hearing unfold in the Lower Manhattan courtroom earlier.

In response to the prosecution saying that President Trump had been making inflammatory statements, his lawyers responded that he was frustrated and upset with the case, which he believed to represent a "great injustice".

The judge responded by telling the defence attorneys: “I don’t share your view that certain rhetoric and certain language is justified by frustration”.

Notably the judge said that his warning about further rhetoric was a request and not an order. But he added that he would have to take “a closer look if this issue is raised again”. This was clearly a warning to Trump and his legal team to be mindful about what he says now.

Of course, we're expecting a speech in just a few hours at the ex-president's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.

The case against Donald Trump makes mention of payoffs to three people, but the former president is facing criminal charges for settlements made with one of them: porn star Stormy Daniels, identified in charging documents as Woman 2.

A reminder that Donald Trump denies he had an affair with Daniels and has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges against him.

Here's what the prosecutors have to say:

• They mention the infamous Access Hollywood tape which emerged during the 2016 election campaign, showing Trump bragging that he would grab women by their genitals
• After the leak, Trump and his campaign staff "were concerned that the tape would harm his viability as a candidate and reduce his standing with female voters in particular"
• Sometime after the tape was revealed to the public, AMI executives learned of "another woman who alleged she had a sexual encounter with [Trump] while he was married" - Daniels - and contacted Michael Cohen

• Cohen negotiated a deal with Daniels' lawyer for her silence over the affair, in order to "prevent disclosure of the damaging information in the final weeks before the presidential election"
• Trump did not want to make the $130,000 payment and directed Cohen to delay for as possible, because "if they could delay the payment until after the election, they could avoid paying altogether, because at that point it would not matter if the story became public"
• But - "with pressure mounting and the election approaching" - Trump "agreed to the payoff" and "confirmed" he would pay Cohen back
• On or about 27 October 2016, Cohen made the payment via a wire transfer to Daniels' lawyer
• After being elected president, Trump is accused of paying Cohen the money back in payments falsely recorded as being for for "legal services"
• "In total, 34 false entries were made in New York business records to conceal the initial covert $130,000 payment," the prosecutors say
• Trump and his allies undertook "a public and private pressure campaign to ensure that [Cohen] did not cooperate with law enforcement", but Cohen ultimately pleaded guilty in a federal investigation

We had the New York prosecutor in this case laying out his allegations against Donald Trump a short while ago.

The Manhattan DA's office also released a Statement of Facts, external alongside the indictment sheet.

The court filing lays out in detail the case against Donald Trump and we're continuing to go through it.

Here are some of the key allegations:

• The main accusation against Trump is that he "repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal criminal conduct that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election"
• By identifying and suppressing harmful stories about him from going public before the election, Trump and others involved in the scheme "violated election laws and made and caused false entries in the business records of various entities in New York"
• The document adds that Trump and his allies "also took steps that mischaracterized, for tax purposes, the true nature of the payments"

Barbara Plett Usher
North America correspondent, reporting from Florida

The press is setting up in the ballroom at Mar-a-Lago where Donald Trump is scheduled to speak in a few hours time: his first public comments since being criminally charged.

There was a suggestion that he might speak outside the courtroom but it seems he’s keeping his powder dry for this event.

The risers are crammed with cameras, pointing at a stage festooned with American flags and a podium that says “Trump.”

Under the chandeliers, hundreds of chairs have been set up for prominent supporters of the former president, and some of the most pro-Trump congressional Republicans are expected to attend.

They’ve all been invited to hear what will likely be full-throated defense of Trump’s innocence, and his allegation that he’s being politically persecuted.

Take a breath, there's a lot to digest in this indictment. The details that follow are laid out in the document:

'Catch and kill'

• Trump, his former lawyer Michael Cohen and American Media Inc (which owned the National Enquirer tabloid) are alleged to have run a "catch and kill scheme to suppress negative information" during the 2016 campaign

• Prosecutors say AMI CEO David Pecker agreed to "act as the 'eyes and ears' for the campaign by looking out for negative stories about [Trump] and alerting [Cohen] before the stories were published"
• Cohen - the prosecution's star witness - has already been convicted and served time in prison while AMI has also "admitted to committing illegal conduct in connection with the scheme"

A doorman with a false story

• Pecker is alleged to have paid $30,000 to a former Trump Tower doorman to suppress a story he planned to tell regarding a child Trump allegedly fathered out of wedlock; the story was ultimately judged to not be true, but Cohen is said to have "instructed" Pecker not to release the man from their agreement until after the election

Pay-off to a former Playboy model

• A few months before the November 2016 election, AMI paid $150,000 to a person identified only as Woman 1 - believed to be former Playboy model Karen McDougal - in exchange for her silence over an alleged affair with Trump in the 2000s
• Trump "was concerned about the effect it could have on his candidacy" and was involved in the discussions over who should pay off McDougal, the indictment says

We're getting some reaction to the allegations against Trump now, from one-time Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Now a US senator, the frequent critic of Trump begins his statement noting he believes the former president is unfit for office.

But Romney says the charges against Trump are "stretched to reach felony criminal charges in order to fit a political agenda".

In his statement he says: "The prosecutor’s overreach sets a dangerous precedent for criminalizing political opponents and damages the public’s faith in our justice system".

He adds that voters will make their own judgement on Trump's political future, but that it's "incumbent on all elected leaders to discourage violence and anger in response to this situation”.

If you're only just joining us, you can watch a quick recap of the day's events so far below.

Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America correspondent

Donald Trump has been indicted on 34 counts of falsification of business records, making him the first former president in US history to face the prospect of a criminal trial.

These are felony charges, which denote serious crimes – ones that could include prison time if a maximum sentence was given.

The charges all arise from Trump’s alleged reimbursement over the course of 11 months of “Lawyer A” for a $130,000 payment to “Woman 2”, who was shopping a story about an alleged affair she had with Trump in the days before the 2016 presidential election.

Although not identified, the facts would indicate that Lawyer A is former president’s lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, while Woman 2 is adult film star Stormy Daniels.

The indictment alleges that Trump falsified cheque records and ledger entries to make it appear that those payments were for “legal fees” and not reimbursements.

It also alleges that the total amount provided to Lawyer A was in excess of the amount he paid Woman 2 in order to compensate for income-tax payments.

The charge of business record falsification is typically a lesser crime – a misdemeanor – but in this case the district attorney’s office elevated the charges to a more serious felony level because, it said, Trump intended to cover up the felony federal campaign finance crime to which Lawyer A pleaded guilty in August 2018.

The indictment’s Statement of Facts provides further background information about what it called Trump’s “unlawful scheme” to prevent damaging information from being revealed about him in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.

It provided two other instances of payments made on Trump’s behalf, by the National Enquirer tabloid newspaper to a doorman who alleged he knew of an illegitimate child Trump fathered and to Woman 1, who evidence suggests is Playboy model Karen McDougal.

“Ultimately,” the statement reads, “other participants in the scheme admitted that the payoffs were unlawful.”

Neither of these instances led to criminal charges against Trump, however.

The indictment is solely targeted toward the hush-money payment to Woman 2.

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Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg has finished his news conference.

Defending his case against Trump, he reiterated several times that accurate business records were important, and "all the more important in Manhattan - the financial centre of the world".

He said that was why the Manhattan DA's office had a history of "vigorously enforcing white collar crime", which is how he also repeatedly characterised the allegations against Trump and Cohen.

Trump's charges were the "bread and butter" of the DA's office's work, Bragg added.

He insisted it was a "thorough and rigorous" investigation and pointed to his 24 years of experience. Defending the timing, he said the case was brought now because it was ready to be brought.

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Donald Trump, executives at American Media Inc (the company which owned tabloid newspaper the National Enquirer), Michael Cohen and others agreed to a "catch and kill" scheme in 2015, Bragg alleges.

He said it was a scheme to buy and supresses negative information to help Trump's chances of winning the election.

Trump and others made three payments to people who claimed to have negative information about him, Bragg alleges.

He says one of the people paid was Stormy Daniels.

A reminder that Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him and has decried the case as political persecution by Democratic prosecutors.