The legal Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial is all however over.
After the ultimate arguments from prosecution and protection, all that’s left within the sex-trafficking trial of the disgraced rap mogul is for the 12 jurors to take a seat down and deliberate, a course of which is ready to start out on Monday.
Diddy has been in pre-trial detention since his September arrest on prices of ‘sex-trafficking, racketeering and transportation to have interaction in prostitution’.
He faces as much as life in jail if convicted.
On Friday (27), Diddy’s protection instructed the jury in its last summation that the rapper’s relationship with Cassie Ventura was ‘sort of a terrific fashionable love story’.
New York Post reported:
“’They beloved. They beloved out loud’, protection lawyer Marc Agnifilo instructed jurors throughout closing arguments on the bombshell sex-trafficking trial towards the rapper — who Ventura stated repeatedly compelled her to have intercourse with completely different males in entrance of him and who was caught on digicam mercilessly beating her.
‘She was all the time free to depart. She selected to remain as a result of she was in love with him, and he was in love along with her’, Agnifilo instructed the jury within the Manhattan federal courtroom.”
Agnifilo invited jurors to learn the ‘stunning textual content messages’ between the couple as they broke up in 2018 – and cry.
“’If you wish to learn some stunning, stunning language … learn the texts. You’ll cry. You’ll cry. You’ll learn proof with an exhibit sticker on it, and you’ll cry’, Agnifilo stated.”
This may occasionally or could not work with a juror panel who noticed a number of instances the lodge CCTV footage of Diddy mercilessly beating Cassie as she tried to flee a ‘freak-out’ intercourse marathon.
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“Over the course of the rapper’s seven-week sex-trafficking trial, jurors heard from 34 witnesses together with star prosecution witness Ventura, who testified that Combs beat her numerous different instances and compelled her to have degrading intercourse with male escorts in what he referred to as “freak-offs,” earlier than raping her in 2018 after they broke up.
Prosecutors declare that for twenty years, Combs used his firm and workers to commit a slew of crimes — most notably forcing Cassie and different girls to take part within the ‘freak-offs’, or orchestrated sex-sessions with male prostitutes. “
Diddy has pled not responsible, and his high-octane protection workforce maintains that the allegedly abused girls have been prepared members in his ‘swinger’ way of life.
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