Cassie's cross-examination could be drawing to a close

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(NewsNation) — The cross-examination of Casandra “Cassie” Ventura by defence attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs continues Friday, a time aft the R&B vocalist was questioned for hours, including astir sexually explicit messages sent betwixt the 2 musicians during their relationship.

However, however agelong Ventura volition stay connected the witnesser stand remains an contented aft the question of whether she needs to instrumentality adjacent week was the taxable of a lively speech betwixt Judge Arun Subramanian and attorneys during Thursday's proceedings.

Ventura is expecting her 3rd kid precise soon. Subramanian encouraged Combs' attorneys to wrapper up their cross-examination Friday greeting to springiness the prosecution an accidental for redirect Friday successful bid to conscionable the timeline that the 2 sides agreed upon months earlier the proceedings began.

Ventura's 2nd time of being cross-examined comes aft she work done a postulation of substance messages and emails sent betwixt her and Combs during their relationship. Ventura work immoderate of the exchanges aloud, creating a courtroom situation that Arick Fudali, an lawyer who represents 2 Diddy accusers successful civilian cases and a authorities witnesser who has not been identified, described to NewsNation arsenic being "tense."

During the speechmaking of 1 email, Ventura said connected the basal that, “I had fallen successful emotion with him and cared astir him precise much.”

However, different messages centered connected the "Freak Offs," of which Ventura testified that she participated successful hundreds of during her narration with Combs. She besides testified that she watched Combs person enactment with different women during the events.

Combs' attorneys characterized Ventura arsenic being the 1 who sought to enactment successful the "Freak Offs," but Ventura testified she often felt compelled to enactment to support Combs happy.

In a 2017 substance message, Cassie told Combs, “I emotion our ('Freak Offs') erstwhile we some privation it,” utilizing the shortened mentation successful texts for “freak-off.”

On the basal Thursday, however, Ventura told jurors, “I would accidental loving ('Freak Offs') were conscionable words astatine that point.”