The jurors see more texts between Cassie and Diddy while prosecutors are preparing for a rest case

The Diddy’s trial was abbreviated this week. The procedures were actually canceled Wednesday after a juror called Sick, and the Federal Court was not in session Thursday respecting the Juneteenth festivals. But this morning, all key players returned to the courtroom to hear the testimony of one of the rapper’s former personal assistants.

Here is what you need to know about day 27 of the trial:

• Brendan Paul testified on the requests of his work of one of the former assistants of Diddy. He told the jurors that he went without sleeping for three days. He remembers that he was asked to buy thousands of dollars in medication. He said that the music magnate had not taken “no” for an answer and compared his staff assistants to the SEAL 6 team of the American army.
• Paul, faced with the counter-examination of the defense lawyer Brian Steelagreed that the ex-girlfriend of Diddy “Jeanne“Did not seem hesitant or worried before” Freak Offs “. Paul said that Jane seemed to be a voluntary participant in sexual meetings – contradicting her testimony and the government’s story.
• US government prosecutors have guided jurors through text messages from Cassie Ventura in Diddy. In a text, Ventura said that she did not deserve to be beaten by him. “It is not love, it is possession,” wrote Ventura, apparently referring to the assault at the 2016 hotel recorded in video.
• Defense again tried to portray “Flices” as consensual meetings. They came into proof of a text message from March 2017 in which Ventura wrote: “I love our FO, when we want both.”

🔎 Interior view

By Adam Reiss, Chloe Melas, Katherine Koretski and Jing Feng

Diddy, wearing a white sweater and black pants, seemed engaged in today’s testimony. He seemed to pay particular attention to the prosecutor Maurene Comey As she questioned the summary of the American government Joseph CeccieloA special agent of the Department of Internal Security.

Paul, the former assistant, struck an ambiguous note by concluding the testimony of the day. When asked by the prosecutor Christy Slavik What he thinks of Diddy today, Paul replied with two cryptic words: “It’s complicated.”

👨‍⚖️ Analysis: in this case, the stars are SMS

By Danny Cevallos

Cerciello, the special agent of internal security, testified on the graphics of evidence compiled by the prosecutors to confirm that they correspond to thousands of records of recordings, including text messages.

Diddy will certainly not testify. But that doesn’t really matter. Indeed, in a modern criminal case – in particular a federal criminal affair – prosecutors can obtain the “testimony” of witnesses and defendants before the jury without them taking a position. The painting through thousands of pages of text messages is something in which special agents and excellent federal prosecutors. It does not matter that a single text message or a short series of messages can be removed from its context. Prosecutors will present it and add their own context. After all, if the defendant thinks that these statements are misleading, he can take a stand and dispute them, right? Except that most of the time, the accused does not take the position.

So far, the star witnesses have probably not been humans. These are things like text messages, financial files and other documents. For any reason, people have always put things in text messages as if they could never become public. We are all guilty too. We are all part of a “group” text message with our friends or our family where we say things that, if they were publicly revealed, would cause us a lot of problems. Admittedly, for Diddy, these texts caused him a lot of problems – probably more than the people who testified against him.

🗓 What is the next step

US government prosecutors are expected to rest their file on Monday. Diddy’s defense team reported that he will need about two days to present his case. If this approximate calendar is valid, fence arguments could take place on Thursday.

PSA: Every night during the Diddy’s trial, NBC “Dateline” will abandon the special episodes of the Podcast “True Crime Weekly” to inform you. “Datelin” correspondent Andrea Canning Cats with NBC News’ Chloé Melas And special guests – just opposite the courthouse. Listen to here.