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(NewsNation) — A national cause who has testified to evidence, including edifice receipts and substance messages detailing "Freak Offs" conducted by Sean “Diddy” Combs, will resume grounds Tuesday successful the sixth week of his criminal trial.
U.S. Attorney's Office Special Agent DeLeassa Penland volition beryllium called backmost to the basal arsenic a summary witness, oregon idiosyncratic who testifies to condense voluminous amounts of evidence.
Penland has presented grounds astir intersexual events allegedly acceptable up by Combs that included escorts and his ex-partner Casandra "Cassie" Ventura.
This week started disconnected with a bang Monday arsenic Judge Arun Subramanian dismissed a juror for what helium called “inconsistencies” and deficiency of candor.
Questions arose implicit whether juror No. 6, a Black man, chiefly resided successful New York oregon New Jersey aft helium informed a tribunal unit subordinate that helium had moved successful with his girlfriend, who lives successful the neighboring state.
Subramanian said allowing the juror to stay could endanger the integrity of the judicial process and could pb to “another acceptable of shifting answers.”
“In different words, there’s thing that the juror tin accidental astatine this constituent that would enactment the genie backmost successful the vessel and reconstruct his credibility,” the justice said.
That juror was replaced by 1 of the alternates, a achromatic antheral from Westchester.
Combs’ defence squad opposed the juror's dismissal, arguing helium was 1 of lone 2 Black men connected the jury, which would apt harm Combs. They besides requested a mistrial implicit the matter.
“There has been nary grounds of prosecutorial misconduct brought to the court’s attention. Zero,” the justice said, rejecting the defense’s 3rd petition for a mistrial.
The authorities presented 2 summary witnesses who testified to the galore substance messages, emails and different correspondences betwixt Combs, his unit and the accusers.
Prosecutors called paralegal Ananya Sankar, who works for the prosecutors office, to work aloud texts from Combs’ erstwhile girlfriend, who testified nether the pseudonym “Jane,” to his main of staff, Kristina Khorram.
In the texts, Jane wrote, [Combs] “just threatened maine astir my enactment tapes that helium has connected 2 phones. He said helium would nonstop them to my babe daddy.”
Jane noted she didn’t typically impact Khorram successful specified matters but said she needed assistance due to the fact that Combs was having 1 of his “evil-ass psychotic bipolar” episodes and, on with threatening her, was saying he’d telephone the constabulary connected her.
Jane besides told Khorram she was heavy drugged successful the tapes.
Texts showed that Jane antecedently told Combs she felt helium exploited her with their “dark and humiliating lifestyle.” She wrote that for the 3 years they were together, she felt confused by their relationship.
Jane testified for astir a week during the trial, telling jurors that she felt compelled to enactment successful a dayslong “hotel night” successful which she engaged successful intersexual events with others.
Combs has pleaded not blameworthy to 1 number of racketeering conspiracy, 2 counts of enactment trafficking and 2 counts of proscription to prosecute successful prostitution.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
