Why defence legal professionals don’t desire jurors to see Cassie pregnant as she’s set to take stand in Diddy trial as we speak
Warning: This text accommodates dialogue of sexual harassment and home violence which some readers might discover distressing
Diddy’s lawyer has defined to the choose why he does not need the jury to see Cassie Ventura’s being pregnant bump when she takes to the stand.
One of the high-profile trials in current instances resumed in New York on Tuesday (13 Might) as Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, 55, faces 5 felony fees.
The hip-hop mogul’s fees embody intercourse trafficking by drive, fraud or coercion, transportation to interact in prostitution, and racketeering conspiracy.
Prosecutors have alleged in a 14-page indictment that Combs engaged in a two-decade-long racketeering sample and used his ‘staff, assets and affect’ to create ‘a felony enterprise whose members and associates engaged in’.
Combs has plead not responsible to all the fees.
Now, a key piece of proof which could possibly be used within the trial is CCTV footage of Combs allegedly punching, kicking, and dragging his ex-girlfriend and singer Cassie Ventura within the hallway of a Los Angeles resort in 2016.
Combs made a public apology after the video was launched by CNN final 12 months, and mentioned: “I take full duty for my actions in that video.
“I used to be disgusted then after I did it. I’m disgusted now.”
Cassie, 38, settled a lawsuit in late 2023 after alleging Combs had subjected her to years of abuse, together with beatings and rape after they met in 2005.
Cassie, who is anticipated to take to the stand as we speak, occurs to be eight months pregnant.
Nonetheless, Diddy’s defence legal professional Marc Agnifilo has informed the choose that he desires her seated earlier than the jury enters.
“As a result of I feel there’s a prejudicial high quality,” he mentioned. “Being pregnant is gorgeous and fantastic. It is also a supply of potential sympathy.”
It comes after Daniel Phillip, a former stripper, mentioned he was paid as much as $6,000 to sleep with Ventura when the pair have been going out.
He informed the courtroom that intercourse might last as long as 10 hours whereas Diddy watched and masturbated.
Phillip, who claims he witnessed Combs bodily abusing Cassie, defined why he was reluctant to inform police.
“My thought was that this was somebody with limitless energy,” he informed the prosecution. “And chances are high even when I did go to the police, that I would nonetheless find yourself shedding my life.”
On one event, he mentioned Ventura ran to him and was shaking.
“I requested her, ‘Why is she doing this, why is she staying with this man?’” he mentioned to the courtroom. “I attempted to clarify to her that she was in actual hazard if she stayed with him.”
The trial is anticipated to final between eight to 10 weeks.
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