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NEW YORK -- The assemblage has reached a partial verdict successful the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial.
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Sean 'Diddy' Combs proceedings updates:Jury deliberations to proceed Tuesday
The assemblage deliberating astatine Sean "Diddy" Combs ' enactment trafficking proceedings asked Tuesday to reappraisal captious grounds from 1 of the prosecution's astir important witnesses: the hip-hop mogul's erstwhile longtime woman Cassie.
Jurors requested the grounds astir 75 minutes into their 2nd time of weighing charges that Combs utilized his fame, wealthiness and unit to unit 2 girlfriends into drug-fueled enactment marathons with antheral enactment workers known arsenic "freak-offs" oregon "hotel nights."
The sheet of 8 men and 4 women asked for Cassie's relationship of Combs beating, kicking and dragging her astatine a Los Angeles edifice successful 2016 - an battle captured connected now-infamous information camera footage.
They besides asked to spot Cassie's grounds astir an incidental successful which she said Combs accused her of taking drugs from him and kicked her disconnected of their yacht astatine the Cannes Film Festival successful France successful 2013. On their mode backmost to the U.S., she said, helium threatened to merchandise explicit videos of her having sex.
In addition, the assemblage asked for Cassie and stripper Daniel Phillip's grounds astir her jumping into his thigh astatine a New York City edifice after, arsenic Phillip testified, helium suspected Combs had been slapping and slamming her astir an adjacent room.
"Her full full assemblage was shaking, similar she was terrified," said Phillip, who was astatine the edifice for a intersexual brushwood with Cassie sometime betwixt 2012 and 2014.
Phillip testified that helium asked Cassie, the R&B vocalist whose existent sanction is Casandra Ventura, wherefore she was with Combs if helium was hitting her and beating her. He said helium told her she was successful existent danger. Cassie, helium said, "basically tried to person maine that it was OK, it's OK. I'm fine, I'll beryllium OK."
Phillip and Cassie testified past week successful the trial's archetypal week.
The jury's grounds petition came soon aft Combs' lawyers and prosecutors began the time haggling with Judge Arun Subramanian implicit a assemblage question near implicit from the extremity of the archetypal time of deliberations connected Monday.
Jurors wanted clarification astir what qualifies arsenic cause distribution, an facet of the racketeering conspiracy complaint that volition assistance find whether Combs tin beryllium convicted oregon exonerated connected the count.
Subramanian said helium would punctual jurors of the instructions helium gave them connected that portion of the lawsuit earlier they started deliberating connected Monday. Combs' lawyers had pushed for a much expansive response, but prosecutors argued - and Subramanian agreed - that doing truthful could extremity up confusing jurors more.
On Monday, the sheet deliberated implicit 5 hours without reaching a verdict.
Defense lawyers contend prosecutors are trying to criminalize Combs' swinger lifestyle. If anything, they say, Combs' behaviour amounted to home unit not national felonies.
Combs, 55, could look 15 years successful situation to beingness down bars if helium is convicted of each charges. Combs, arsenic helium has done the trial, conferred intently with his lawyers arsenic they discussed responding to the jury's request. Later, helium leaned guardant to scrutinize thing connected the machine surface that sits successful beforehand of him.
After pleading not guilty, Combs chose not to attest arsenic his lawyers built their arguments for acquittal mostly done lengthy transverse examinations of dozens of witnesses called by prosecutors, including immoderate of Combs' erstwhile employees who took the witnesser basal reluctantly lone aft being granted immunity.
When jurors archetypal near the country to statesman deliberating connected Monday, Combs sat for a portion slumped successful his seat astatine the defence array earlier lasting and turning toward 3 rows of spectators packed with his household and friends.
Those supporters held hands and lowered their heads successful prayer, arsenic did Combs, who was respective feet from them successful the good of the courtroom. After they finished, they unneurotic applauded, and truthful did Combs, inactive clapping arsenic helium turned backmost toward the beforehand of the room.
Combs besides showed disconnected 2 books he's reading: "The Power of Positive Thinking" by Norman Vincent Peale and "The Happiness Advantage" by Shawn Achor.
Barely an hr into deliberations, the assemblage foreperson sent a enactment to the judge, complaining that determination was 1 juror "who we are acrophobic cannot travel your Honor's instructions. May I delight talk with your Honor oregon whitethorn you delight interrogation him?"
The justice decided alternatively to nonstop jurors a enactment reminding them of their duties to deliberate and work to travel his instructions connected the law.
By day's end, the assemblage seemed backmost connected track, sending the enactment astir cause distribution.
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