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May 8, 2025

The Trial of Sean Combs Episode Three | Jury Selection Begins

The Trial of Sean Combs Episode Three | Jury Selection Begins

In this third episode, selection in the Sean Combs' trial has started and Jim Chapman, host of Exposed: Scandalous Files of the Elite brings you all the details occuring inside the courtroom. The prosecution and defense teams are fousing on juror...

In this third episode, selection in the Sean Combs' trial has started and Jim Chapman, host of Exposed: Scandalous Files of the Elite brings you all the details occuring inside the courtroom.
The prosecution and defense teams are fousing on juror biases and Jim discusses that today as well as “Diddy” plea deal rejection and what is next for this "trial of trials".

Welcome to The Trial of Sean Combs. Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs had it all. In the 90s and 00s, he produced global hits for the hottest stars in the world, including Biggie, Mary J. Blige and J Lo.
Then came the business deals, from vodka to media companies - everything Diddy touched turned to gold.
Now, he faces multiple federal charges in New York, including sex trafficking and allegedly running a criminal enterprise.

The Trial of Diddy is anticipated to be one of the most historic trials in United States history. This series will bring you all of the up to minute details of the Diddy party rumors, in which many were saying Diddy diddy go away by the time the party ended.

The theatrical atmosphere in this trial will be something you are going to want to hear about it and weekly updates just will not be enough so look for this series to drop daily as the trial moves along.
Opening statements in the diddy trial are just days away and I am on it!

Chapters
00:04 The Trial Is Here
01:37 Jury Selection
08:05 Juror Conflicts and Dismissals
13:03 Day Two: More Juror Questions
18:19 Quick Trial Timeline Ahead
20:13 High-Powered Attorney Barred
26:02 Jury Sequestration Concerns
28:24 Upcoming Bombshells

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The podcast does not constitute professional advice, and listeners are encouraged to seek guidance from qualified professionals regarding any specific issues or concerns. By listening to this podcast, you acknowledge that you understand and accept these terms. We are not liable for any actions taken based on the content provided in this podcast.

Further Legal Note: This Case has not been decided and all persons discussed in this podcast are assumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The civil charges expressed in this podcast are taken from public record and any commentary discussed are for informational purposes may or may not be the opinion of the host and/or producers of this podcast.

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Hey everyone, and welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of

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the Elite. I'm your host, Jim Chapman, and the trial

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of Sean Combs is finally underway and jury selection has begun.

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Now I'm going to catch you up on what has

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occurred so far, some surprises already coming out, and even

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some answers to questions that many of us have had

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throughout the entire ordeal. So let's get in to it.

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And on Monday, jury selection did begin. This was Monday,

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May fifth, and Sean Combs did show up to court

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wearing a white collared shirt with a black sweater and

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gray slacks. He was clean shaven and his hair was

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totally gray, and he had a gray fou man chew

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or goatee, which is a good indication of what prison

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will do to you, even when you're in there for

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just a short period of time, as he has been.

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Now pauln entering the courtroom, he hugged and he shook

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hands with his attorneys, and at that point the prospective

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jurors entered the courtroom and they were asked questions meant

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to drawn out any potential biases or conflicts that they

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may have for this case, including questions about their experiences

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with sexual harassment, domestic violence, their opinions on illegal drugs,

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and their opinions on sex workers. They even asked the

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potential jury their views on law enforcement and hip hop artists. Now,

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as a quick reminder, the trial almost did not happen.

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Sean Combes was offered a plea deal, as I told

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you in a past episode in the eleventh Hour, which

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that's not rare. Typically, just prior to these trials starting

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the prosecution in the defense, they'll play a little bit

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of cat and mouse with each other, and in this case,

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especially with the expense involved in trying this case, considering

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the magnitude, I figured at some point late in the

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game a plea deal would be offered to Seawan Combs,

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which indeed it was. However, surprisingly to me, this plea

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deal was turned down. Now the details of that plea

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deal have not been released. That matters. I mean, there's

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a big difference between saying, all right, we'll offer you

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twelve years if you plead guilty and saying we'll offer

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you three years if you plead guilty. Shawn Combs likely

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would have took that three year deal. A twelve year deal,

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not so much. Whatever they offered, it wasn't sweet enough

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to get Shawn Combs to accept it. And I'm sure

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he and his lawyers sat down, they discussed the prison

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cons and they must feel like they've got a pretty

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good case to turn down a plea deal, even if

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it was just let's call it a medium range deal,

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because there's a lot of risk with turning that plea

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deal down. Keep in mind, he could get up to

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life in prison now. Honestly, my feeling thus far, if

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he's found guilty, I would be surprised if he gets

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more than fifteen years. I think that's around what he's

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going to end up with. Now, that's a long time

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when you're fifty five years old, especially when you're a

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multi billionaire and you're used to running the show. A

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year is a long time in that situation. But fifteen

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he probably passed out in the courtroom. Now you may

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be saying to yourself, fifteen years with over one hundred

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people coming out and saying he raped and drugged them

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and all those things. Keep in mind those are civil cases,

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not criminal cases. You don't do jim time for civil cases.

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You just pay a lot of money. So as I said,

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the questioning of these potential jurors began and they were

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asked a wide range of questions, and right off the bat,

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you're giving a questionnaire. And one of the interesting things

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on this questionnaire was the jury was being pulled on

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people whose names may come up during the trial. When

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I say people, I mean famous people names such as

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Michael B. Jordan, Mike Myers, Kanye West. As a matter

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of fact, it was one hundred and ninety different celebrities

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in all that the jurors were pulled about. And you

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may have just got a pause when I said Mike Myers.

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Of course, you know, Mike Myers is lost in powers,

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and it's important to mention just because their names are

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on the list, it doesn't necessarily mean they did something nefarious.

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And Mike Myers case, for example, he was photographed going

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into a Diddy party many years ago. However, as I've

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told you in the past, those Diddy parties were pre parties.

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Then there was an after party and most of the

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people from the pre parties they left and they had

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that after party, and allegedly that's where the freak offs occurred.

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So just because you're on the list, doesn't necessarily mean

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you're a rapist or a pedophile or anything like that.

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So in day one of this trial, we got a

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good idea of the questions that were going to be

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asked during the trial. And incidentally, the group of jars

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they ranged in age on that day one, from thirty

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all the way up to seventy five. Most were primarily

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college educated. They all had vast backgrounds in different fields.

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There were scientists, there were professional movers, business owners, grocery

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store clerks. It just ran the gamut of people. They

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were even asked what news outlet that they go to,

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what's their go to news source, and most responded with

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either New York Times Singing In or NPR. And there

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were several dismissals. One dismissal that stuck out came late

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in the afternoon after a potential juror noted a possible

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conflict of interest when he stated his wife served as

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an attorney during what's known as the nineteen ninety one

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City College Stampede. Now, if you're not familiar with that,

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it was a celebrity basketball game that Shawn Combs actually organized.

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After the basketball game, there was a kind of a

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stampede a rush of the crowd out of the building,

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and nine people were killed when they were trampled essentially

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at that event. Combs was never criminally charged in that,

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but he did face a lot of lawsuits as the

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result of that. And the judge in this situation, he

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agreed that was a conflict of interest and he dismissed

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that juror. And there were other dismissals. One juror was

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dismissed because she could not understand English. I shit you not,

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And of course the judge agreed and she was dismissed.

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Another juror stated he held ill will towards law enforcement

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officers because he was searched throughout the years for no

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good reason, and obviously that guy was dismissed. Now, one

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woman asked to recuse herself from the jury because she

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said next month she had a ton of shit going

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on in her life. She mentioned her son's prim her

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daughter's birthday. But let this be a lesson to you

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if you ever get jury duty, that will never get

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you excused from jury duty. And the judge did deny

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that request. Now, one man on the potential jury he

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lobbied to withdraw, saying he doesn't like to see violence

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on video, and he had no desire to see video

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of a man beating a woman, but that request was

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not enough to get him dismissed. Jurors were also asked

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if on their social media they had ever seen any

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videos of anything regarding the ditty case. In one jar,

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he said that he had seen on social media a

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comedic video is how he described it, featuring Diddy and

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a bunch of baby oil. I can only imagine what

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that was. And the judge asked him, well, even though

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you've seen that video, can you put that aside and

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still be impartial? And the jar said yes, and so

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he was not dismissed. Another person expressed some anxiety about

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being on the jury, and she revealed that she had

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been sexually assaulted as a teen. And at that point

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when Comb's lawyers they pretty much freaked out because, let's

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face it, there's a high likelihood that this woman is

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not going to feel any sympathy for Sean Combe's whatsoever

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if she feels like he's guilty, right, So they moved

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to have her dismissed, and the judge actually denied that

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because he asked her, can you be impartial regardless of

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your experience, and she said she could. On that note, however,

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another jar she stated that hearing any victims discuss a

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lege assault would make her uncomfortable, and that potential juror

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was dismissed. Comb's lawyers also moved to remove another potential

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juror because she worked for HBO, who recently produced a

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series called Quote The Fall of Diddy, but the judge

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ruled that although she worked at HBO, he asked her,

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did you have anything to do with this documentary? She

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said no, she was just employed by HBO and that

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she could be impartial, and he did not dismiss her.

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And it's worth mentioning that did he He didn't say

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a whole lot during this day. One as a matter

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of fact, one full sentence pretty much came out of

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his mouth the entire day. It was about an hour

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and a half into the questioning of these potential jurors,

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and did he raised his hand and asked the judge

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if he could go to the bathroom, which, of course,

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he got his bathroom break. Now, before we go any further,

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can you imagine this is Sean Combe's multi billionaire and

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he is now in a position in his life where

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he has to raise his hand and ask the judge

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if he can go to the bathroom. I'm sure that

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did not sit well with his ass So the judge,

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as I said, he agreed to allow, did he that

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bathroom break? And his response was quote, I'm sorry, judge,

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I'm very nervous today. Now again, just as a reminder,

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these federal trials are not televised. Not only are they

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not televised, you can't even have audio recordings of federal trials,

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which I totally disagree with. Any trial in the United

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States of America should be a public trial. In one

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of this magnitude, obviously, everyone can't travel to New York

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to attend, and they don't have the space to hold

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everyone even if everyone could. And it's all of our

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rights as citizens to view these trials. With the technology

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at the point that it is today, there is no

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excuse that you can give me as to why they

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essentially make these things private. Now. I understand the sensitivity

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of it, but murder trials are televised all the time,

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sex assault trials televised all the time. Yes, there's victims

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that may have to testify. Pixelate them out if you

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have to. If it's a sensitive witness, etc. But just

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to totally block even an audio version of that trial,

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to me, is not what we should be all about

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in the United States. I just don't understand why federal

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trial is any different than a state trial relative to

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the ability to televise or record it. But one person

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likes it, and that is the sketch artist who has

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really been putting together I'm just gonna be honest, funny

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looking sketches of Sean Combs. I actually uploaded several of

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these sketches and I gave you my thoughts on those

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sketches on the Patreon, so check that out if you

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want to see it. But that person is going to

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be working some serious overtime during this one, and it's

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really fun to just surmise what Dinny was thinking these sketches,

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and I gave you my opinion that I thought was

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pretty funny. So they rested for day one and in

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Day two of the trial was on Tuesday, May six,

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and jurors were repeatedly asked if they had a family

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member or a friend that had been a victim of

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sexual assault, sexual harassment, or domestic violence, and whether they

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or a loved one have been charged or accused of

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any such crimes. Now, one question that was particularly interesting

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was have you communicated with others, posted your opinion on

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social media or online, or liked any social media post

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about Combs? If so, when and where did you post

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or state your opinion? And remember, in day one someone

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actually answered that question and did not get dismissed. Prosecutors

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also asked potential jurors about their feelings on law enforcement

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and experiences with government, the same thing they asked in

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day one when the gentleman got dismissed because he said

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he couldn't stand law enforcement. And Combe's team also asked

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potential jurors to describe what kind of music they liked

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in their opinions on hip hop or rap music. Obviously,

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if you're on the defense team and someone says I

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hate rap music, they probably would have a predisposition to

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Sewan Comb's, and so they want to weave that shit out.

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The defense team also wanted to know if jurors were

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open minded to alternative sexual lifestyles, which this one didn't

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surprise me because it's obvious at this point the defense

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team is going to use what I'm gonna call the

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swingers defense, they're gonna say, did he and his girlfriends, etc.

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Were swingers and that's why they were having these freak offs.

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And keep in mind, whether you agree or not with

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the swinging lifestyle, it's certainly not illegal. So that's what

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they're going to push. I think that's going to be

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a big part of the defense. So by the end

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of the court proceedings on May six, thirty nine, perspective

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jurors had faced questions and sixteen of those moved forward

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in the process. This included ten men and six of women.

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Their ages on day two ranged from thirty eight to

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get this, eighty seven years old. An eighty seven year

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old actually showed up for jery duties. Shout out to them.

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I hope I'm alive at eighty seven, much less competent

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enough to serve on a jerk now. Their occupations included

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an American airlines pilot, a social worker, a kitchen designer,

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a doctor, and of course many more just running that gamut.

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Three mentioned they liked hip hop music. Some in the

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group said that they were getting their news from New

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York Times and NBC. Some other cited YouTube and social

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media platforms. One potential juror was dismissed after sharing that

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he was arrested seven years ago for possession of marijuana. Now,

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the judge asked him, if I asked you to not

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use marijuana during the trial, would that be hard for you?

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And the man responded with that would be a difficult request,

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and he even stated the last time he used marijuana

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was the previous night. So the man was dismissed from

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the jury. Comes defense actually joked in the courtroom the

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jurors shouldn't use marijuana during the trial. So the case

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broke for lunch. Six potential jurors were selected to move

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forward out of the fifteen at that point that had

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been questioned. The other nine individuals were dismissed from that pool. Now,

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several of the individuals on Tuesday did not speak fluent

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English or they had medical concerns over sitting on the

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jury were struck for potentially having bias towards Combe. Now,

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one woman from the jury pool admitted that due to

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her Catholic upbringing, she feels a lot of guilt and

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has anxiety taking on a case such as the Combe's case.

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She said to me, you have the life of somebody

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in your hands. That's very difficult for me, but I

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think I could do it. But prosecutors didn't like that

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answer too much, obviously, because she's basically saying I would

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struggle with putting someone in jail for the rest of

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their life. And they expressed some doubt over the woman's

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ability to concentrate during the trial, but they tried to

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say it was over health issues. She did tell the

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judge that due to stomach issues, she may have to

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take multiple bathroom breaks, and after it was all sudden done,

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the judge struck the woman from the jury pool, and

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he noted that it was because the court days are

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shorter and this being a more intense trial, there would

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likely be fewer breaks. So quickly, let's talk about how

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long it's going to take to get through this process

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of jury selection. Assuming all parties can agree on forty

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five durwors by the end of the May seventh session,

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the prosecutors and the defense they're going to spend May

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eighth and ninth preparing for opening statements, and this trial

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is going to really start with opening statements on May twelfth,

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and that's pretty quick, as a matter of fact, super

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quick relative to state trials and federal trials are always

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quicker than state trials. Incidentally, especially when they're choosing jurys.

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State trials, it can take almost a month for trials

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of this size just to pick a jury. But as

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I said, federal trials move quickly, and this trial is

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going to be no exception. And an interesting situation also

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took place on May six, that second day of jury

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selection when a high powered attorney got bought from the courtroom.

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Mark Gergoes, who think of him as an attorney to

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the stars. He was sitting in the courtroom and he's

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not one of Ditty's attorneys, although his daughter is one

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of Ditty's attorneys. He was actually sitting right behind the

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defense team, and at one point the defense team leaned

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back and they start talking to him. And this is

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in the midst of picking the jury. You can't do that.

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He has to be listed on Ditty's representation in order

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to offer advice in the courtroom, and once the trial

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starts with jury selection, you can't start adding attorney. So

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obviously the prosecution and the defense knew this. I guess

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the defense was just trying to slide one past the

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prosecution because this guy's known for picking amazing juries. So

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the prosecution saw them talking to him and they stopped everything,

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and they petition to have him removed from the courtroom,

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which the judge agreed to do, and also the judge

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barred him from any of the proceedings going forward. He

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can't even be in the courtroom. Now. Pretty wild stuff.

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So to sum up the first couple of days of

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jury selection, one thing important to keep in mind. Obviously

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there's going to be little if anyone who has not

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heard of Sean Combs or not heard of the accusations,

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especially from New York where he's from. But the fact

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that you've heard of him or you've heard of the

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case doesn't matter. The thing that matters is have you

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formed an opinion on the case based off of what

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you heard or seen? Or could you consider the evidence

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fairly and remain impartial and you don't have your mind

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made up. If the answer is, you can be impartial

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regardless of what you've heard, or you can serve on

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that jury or any other jury. Another thing that's interesting

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is it's a racketeering case. And when you think of racketeering,

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typically you think of this enterprise, and it consists of

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a bunch of people like these big mob cases where

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there's forty guys going up for trial, but in this case,

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it's just one person that's Diddy, and that's kind of rare. Now,

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it's not unheard of, or Kelly is a good example

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of someone who was a one man racketeering enterprise. But

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it's interesting nonetheless, and something the defense will probably bring

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up during the trial. I could see them saying, how

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could one man pull off all these things you're saying

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he did? Why is no one else on trial? Why

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is it only showing combes. They're going to try to

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make it look like he's being railroaded. I guarantee you

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that's something they're going to come up with during this

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trial and going forward into the actual trial itself. As

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I've discussed many times in the past, that video, the

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cast venture video, is the key piece of evidence, and

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she's agreed to testify against Diddy in court. According to

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all the reports I've seen, this is the most damning

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evidence the prosecution has by far, and it was a

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big win for them when the judge ruled they could

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show that video and Cassie and all the interviews that

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I've seen throughout her career. Not related to this case.

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She comes off as a very credible person. I obviously

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don't know her personally, but I've seen some interviews. She

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seems like a very honest individual. And that's important because

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credibility is what the jury's going to be judging. How

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is the defense going to overcome that, Well, I'm going

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to overpine. They're going to say the video is a

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representation of a couple getting in a fight over allegations

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of adultery and nothing more. And they're going to try

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to be little that video, if you will, to the

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point where the hope is the jury doesn't see it

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as a big deal when it actually is a huge deal.

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And that video is what got me talking about this

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case in the detail that I did in the very

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beginning and infuriated me. Is disgusting. Now, a lot of

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people have asked about the documentaries that have came out

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and how will they come into play during the trial,

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because some people that are potential witnesses may have been

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on a documentary or a podcast, And that's actually a

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great question, and it's also kind of the risk you

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run when you go onto a podcast or you're part

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of a documentary, because if you say something different in

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that courtroom than what you said in a documentary. For example,

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the defense team can then present evidence in that documentary,

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let's say, of you saying something different, and you can

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actually get impeached for that right there in court. Plus,

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it automatically takes credibility away from you in the eyes

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of the jury. So you have to be very careful

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and guaranteed anyone who's on that witness list to testify

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that did a podcast or did a documentary, that defense

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team's going to memorize every word. They're going to have

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transcripts of everything they said in that podcast or documentary

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right there on the defense table, and the first inaccuracy,

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they're going to bring it up. Another interesting strategy is

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it relates to the prosecution that we haven't discussed yet,

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is the fact that all of the prosecutors in this case,

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and there's five them, incidentally, they're all female. Now, these

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female prosecutors are the best of the best in the

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entire nation. But that strategy can go both ways. It

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could be great for the prosecution because this is a

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case where it doesn't involve males on the criminal side.

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It's all female victims, and the jury could see this

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as kind of a sign of solidarity and really go

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for it, or they can see it as a message

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the federal government is trying to relay something bigger, if

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you will, then showing combs, and it actually could turn

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on them in that situation. They could say, this is

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one man on trial and you're trying to turn this

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into like a me too movement type thing. So it'll

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be interesting to see how this plays out in the

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eyes of the jury. But let me tell you, these

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are some smart ladies right here on that prosecution team.

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They're going to be impressive. Another thing to me that

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is really shocking is the fact that, according to what

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the jury is being told at this point, there are

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no plans to sequester the jury. Now, personally, I think

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this is a big mistake. If you remember with the

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oj Simpson trial, those jurors were sequestered for nine months. Now,

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no doubt this is not going to be that long.

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I look for this trial to be a month, maybe

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a month and a half at the most. But how

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the hell can you not sequester a jury in a

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trial of this magnitude with this much media hype surrounding it.

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Remember this isn't the nineteen nineties like it was when

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the OJ Simpson case came out and that jury was sequestered.

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These days, you have social media everywhere. There's no way

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they're going to be able to go home every night

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and stay away from anything to do with this trial.

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You just can't trust people to do that. As a

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matter of fact, in that questionnaire sent out to potential jurors,

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it's specifically said, quote, there are no plans to sequester

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the jury, which means you will go home every day

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after court unquote. Now can this change? Yes, absolutely, they

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can decide to sequester that jury in the eleventh hour,

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and actually I'll be shocked if they don't. But as

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of now, no plans to do that. So what issue

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does that create. Well, to me, it creates a major

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play for an appeal where Sean Combs would actually have

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a legitimate argument. He could just say the jury was

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tainted because they went home every night, and he could

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produce proof of all this massive media coverage, and in

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all likelihood he would get a new trial based off

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of that. In my opinion, it's just not worth the resk.

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It seems like that one blew my mind, I gotta admit,

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but there you have it. That's your update of the

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Diddy Trial, y'all. It's about to get wild. I'm gonna

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