Sean Combs and his legal professional Marc Agnifilo talk about with different protection attorneys on how to reply to a brand new observe despatched by jurors, throughout Combs’ intercourse trafficking trial in New York Metropolis on Tuesday on this courtroom sketch.
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A federal jury in Manhattan is continuous to deliberate within the felony trial of Sean Combs, the hip-hop tycoon often known as Diddy or Puff Daddy.
A observe the jurors despatched to Decide Arun Subramanian on Tuesday afternoon mentioned they’d reached settlement on two of the three fees in opposition to Combs: intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution. These fees revolve round accusations involving two of Combs’ ex-girlfriends, the singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura and a lady who testified below the pseudonym “Jane.” The federal government alleges that Combs pressured Ventura and Jane into elaborate intercourse and drug marathons that included male intercourse staff.
The jury additionally said, nevertheless, that they’ve been unable to succeed in a unanimous settlement thus far on a racketeering accusation in opposition to Combs, wherein the federal government alleges that Combs and a few of his associates and workers used his professional enterprise empire to cover felony actions, together with bribery, drug distribution and obstruction of justice.
In all, federal prosecutors within the Southern District of New York are in search of to convict Combs on 5 whole felony counts:
- Depend One: Racketeering, which carries a most sentence of life in jail
- Depend Two: Intercourse trafficking by pressure, fraud or coercion of Cassie Ventura, which carries a compulsory minimal sentence of 15 years and a most sentence of life imprisonment
- Depend Three: Transportation to interact in prostitution (often known as the Mann Act) of Cassie Ventura, which carries a most sentence of 10 years
- Depend 4: Intercourse trafficking by pressure, fraud or coercion of Jane, which carries a compulsory minimal sentence of 15 years and a most sentence of life imprisonment
- Depend 5: Transportation to interact in prostitution of Jane, which carries a most sentence of 10 years
Decide Subramanian instructed the jury to maintain deliberating on the racketeering cost. The jury has completed its deliberations for the day, and can proceed its discussions on Wednesday.
