One other day full of emotion in Sean ‘Diddy’ Comb’s high-profile trial, when each the protection and the prosecution scored some obvious factors, because the social media influencer and Diddy’s final girlfriend ‘Jane’, testifying beneath pseudonym, is being cross-examined by protection lawyer Tery Geragos.
‘Jane’, who says that Diddy brutally beat her, making her have unprotected intercourse with porn stars and escorts, at occasions cried uncontrollably as she described her compelled, drug-fueled ‘freak-off’ intercourse marathons on the heart of this case.
Diddy is going through intercourse trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to interact in prostitution prices, that he denies.
Accused of utilizing his fame, fortune and plenty of companies to run a felony racketeering enterprise, the rapper faces life in jail if convicted.
The day (10) started with a victory for the prosecution, because the choose overseeing Diddy’s trial denied the protection’s second request for a mistrial, revamped claims of ‘prosecutorial misconduct’.
CNN reported:
“Over the weekend, protection attorneys for Combs filed a letter renewing their request for a mistrial, accusing the prosecution of presenting false testimony from witness Bryana Bongolan, a detailed good friend of Cassie Ventura who testified final week that Combs as soon as dangled her over the seventeenth ground balcony at Ventura’s house in 2016.
Choose Arun Subramanian dominated on Tuesday that the protection was not prejudiced by Bongolan’s testimony as a result of they had been in a position to conduct a vigorous cross examination of Bongolan, particularly pertaining to the timing of the alleged balcony incident.
Bongolan underwent a tense cross-examination from Combs’ protection wherein they offered the jury with resort information that confirmed Combs was in New York on the Trump Resort on the date that Bongolan testified she was dangled over the balcony in Los Angeles – arguing that it was not doable for Combs to have engaged within the alleged incident.”
Choose Subramanian known as Nicole Westmoreland’s cross-examination of Bongolan a ‘Perry Mason second’.
Bongolan insisted that she has ‘little doubt’ that the incident occurred, even when she remembered the date incorrectly.
“She mentioned that she had suffered from ‘night time terrors’ ever because the incident, and the jury was proven pictures of a big bruise on Bongolan’s leg, which she mentioned was taken the identical day that Combs allegedly dangled her over the balcony.”
Prosecutor Madison Smyser mentioned that Bongolan might have misremembered when she took the pictures of her purported accidents, and argued that Bongolan had testified that she didn’t bear in mind all the main points of the alleged incident clearly.
“That is the second request for a mistrial from Combs’ staff. The primary try after the prosecution questioned a Los Angeles Fireplace Division arson investigator in regards to the destruction of fingerprint proof from Child Cudi’s house. […] ‘They had been suggesting to this jury that somebody on this courtroom had one thing to do with the improper and suspicious destruction of those fingerprints’, protection legal professional Marc Agnifilo mentioned.”
However in an obvious triumph for the protection, choose Arun Subramanian additionally dominated right now that the feds can’t name a psychologist again to the stand with the intention to clarify why victims of home violence stick with their abusers.
New York Post reported:
“In a small authorized win for the embattled hip-hop mogul, prosecutors is not going to get to have Dr. Daybreak Hughes testify about why Combs’ ex-lover ‘Jane’ continued to this point him even after his alleged brutal, hours-long beatdown of her in June 2024.
[…] Hughes testified earlier within the trial in regards to the psychological affect of abuse in Combs’ relationship together with his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura.”
Dr. Hughes has taken the stand at different high-profile circumstances, together with disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein’s Manhattan intercourse crimes retrial.
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