Mr. Menendez, 70, has pleaded not guilty to charges that he doled out political favors to friends and foreign governments in exchange for bribes both eye-popping and mundane.
He is charged with acting as an agent of a foreign government and is the first senator in American history to be indicted twice in separate bribery cases, facts that have infused the proceeding with a sober, precedent-setting tone.
One key unanswered question is whether the senator will testify in his own defense before jurors are asked to decide whether prosecutors from the U.S. attorney's office in the Southern District of New York have proven their case beyond a reasonable doubt.
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