Authorized knowledgeable explains tactic Diddy prosecution is utilizing in court docket throughout ex-girlfriend Cassie’s testimony
Warning: This text accommodates dialogue of sexual harassment and home violence which some readers might discover distressing
A authorized knowledgeable has defined why they assume the prosecution is utilizing the 2016 lodge surveillance video as proof in court docket in opposition to Diddy.
The music producer’s ex-girlfriend Cassie has returned to court docket after testifying yesterday (13 Could) about Sean Combs’ ‘freak offs’, which might ‘last as long as 4 days’.
The R&B singer, whose authorized title is Casandra Ventura, has claimed that she was in an abusive, drug-fuelled, relationship with Combs, who allegedly pressured her to have intercourse with escorts.
It comes after prosecutors wrote within the 14-page indictment that ‘freak offs have been elaborate and produced intercourse performances that Combs organized, directed, masturbated throughout, and sometimes electronically recorded’.
Cassie first met Diddy in 2005 when she was 19 and he was 37. They began relationship a couple of years later after he signed her to his Unhealthy Boy Information label.
She sued him in 2023 and alleged years of abuse, however the go well with was settled someday after it was filed.
A yr later, a 2016 video of Combs allegedly punching, kicking, and dragging Cassie within the hallway of a Los Angeles lodge was shared by CNN in 2016.
“I take full accountability for my actions in that video,” the music mogul mentioned in a public apology on the time.
Footage from the incident has been proven to the court docket all through Cassie’s testimony, and a authorized knowledgeable claims this has been deliberate.
CNN senior authorized analyst Elie Honig has suggested that the video has been proven a number of instances to ‘assist her credibility’.
“As a result of it’s so visceral. As a result of for those who’re a juror or a standard particular person, whenever you see that video the violence turns into so actual,” Honig defined.
“One, they’re supporting Cassie Ventura’s credibility as a result of what’s she’s saying the jury doesn’t must take it at her phrase, they’ll see it within the video.
“And the second factor, they’re utilizing Cassie Ventura to relate that video as a result of it tells you a large number but it surely doesn’t inform you all the things.”
The analyst mentioned that ‘for those who can have one of many individuals explaining precisely to the jury what’s taking place, that’s going to seize their consideration and that’s going to mutually bolster the witness and the video on the similar time’.
Testifying on the stand in the present day (14 Could), Ventura mentioned her good friend was at her condominium when she received dwelling from the lodge altercation.
“She was tremendous upset, she had seen each black eyes and busted lips earlier than,” Ventura mentioned, revealing that her good friend went and known as the police.
“I answered a few questions however once they needed me to say who I used to be speaking about, I might not. In order that they left,” Cassie mentioned.
The singer, who’s eight months pregnant, mentioned she ‘wasn’t prepared’ to discuss what occurred as a result of ‘in that second, I didn’t need to damage him that method. It was simply an excessive amount of happening’.
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