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Today, the American government prosecutors have tried to end the case they have presented in the past five weeks. They has traveled the jurors through Text messages, telephone newspapers, hotels reservations and other evidence of what they say indicates a sprawling criminal plot led by a man with an incessant desire for “freak offs”.
Diddy’s defense team continued to grow back, again suggesting that the women of Diddy’s life were voluntary participants in the sexual episodes. The legal arguments of the two parties are familiar at this stage, but the lawyers clearly try to bring their key points back while the accusation is preparing to rest its case.
Here is what you need to know about day 25 of the trial:
- Selesa PenlandA special agent at the American lawyer’s office, said that Diddy seems to have paid the male escort Jules TheodoreVoyage by round trip from Los Angeles to New York in August 2009 – possibly strengthening one of the American government’s accusations against Diddy: transport to engage in prostitution.
- In an effort to illustrate that the “Freak OFS” of Diddy were consensual, the defense read SMS showing the hip-hop magnate and the ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura Exchange dates for their next sexual meeting on the marathon. “This can be a date you choose,” Diddy told Ventura in a text in August 2009, according to evidence.
🔎 Interior view
By Adam Reiss, Chloe Melas, Katherine Koretski and Jing Feng
Judge Arun Subramanian was furious this morning.
He reprimanded the accusation and the defense on an online article which seemed to include the details of a sealed procedure. He asked lawyers if they knew the source of the report. “Someone is lying,” said Subramanian. “The transcription was sealed.”
“The court imposed an order of gag in the government, the defendant, all the lawyers for the defense, and any person involved was made responsible,” added Subramanian. “What happened here … can lead to accusations of civil or criminal contempt for all those involved.”
In other news: Diddy, wearing a cream color sweater, did not seem to be engaged in today’s procedures. He sometimes leaned forward to read papers on the defense table – but overall, he did not seem particularly interested in the testimony of the special agent.
👨⚖️ Analysis: Why the testimony of plane trips is so crucial
By Danny Cevallos
Penland’s testimony on Diddy seeming to have paid for the plane trips of a sex worker, in itself, can be sufficient for the jury to condemn chiefs 3 and 5, “transport to engage in prostitution”, also called “Mann Act”. During the last month, most of the emphasis was placed on other accusations: sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.
The elements necessary for a condemnation of the law on man are (1) transport knowingly transported (or attempt to transport) a person in interstate or foreign trade, (2) with the intention that the person engages in prostitution (or any other illegal sexual activity specified). There is no requirement for strength, fraud or coercion, as there are with accusations of sexual traffic. There is no defense of consent.
As much as sex trafficking and Rico’s accusations dominated coverage, accusations of the Mann law are discreetly the easiest accusations for a conviction in this case. The government just needs proof of interstate travel and a desire to prostitute a prostitute. The prosecutors had almost everything with a single witness: a special agent who was not even an eyewitness of anything, but who read the recordings in evidence.
🗓 What is the next step
Here is what we know of the next few days:
- The government will probably rest its case on Friday, assistant American lawyer Maurene Comey confirmed.
- Marc AgnifiloDiddy’s principal defense lawyer said the defense needed two to five days to present his file, but that this calendar is not set in stone.
- The jury could get the case next week, said Subramanian.
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.
