On Monday (June 16), jurors within the felony trial in opposition to Diddy had an unorthodox respite from the standard witness testimony and proof presentation, as they received to view parts of the videotapes of the intercourse events that Diddy threw. Prosecutors for the federal authorities confirmed the jurors the footage of the alleged “freak offs” as they questioned a particular agent for the Division of Justice on the witness stand.
In keeping with the New York Occasions, the footage jurors seen was from 2012 and 2014, and concerned Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura, Diddy’s former companion. The jurors seen the footage whereas within the courtroom, carrying headphones as they checked out screens with privateness guards connected. One younger juror was reported to have giggled audibly because the clips, 30 seconds in size, had been first displayed. The remaining jurors had been silent, with some wincing at what they noticed and one snatching the headphones off after the primary clip was performed. In keeping with TMZ, a few of the audio from the video clips could possibly be faintly heard because the courtroom went silent.
Previous to the viewing of the movies, prosecutors introduced a bevy of textual content and audio messages which concerned Kristina Khorram, Diddy’s former chief of employees directing assistants to have luxurious resort rooms furnished with provides for the “freak offs”(which had been additionally dubbed “wild king nights” and “resort nights”). The messages are a part of the prosecution’s case to show that these assistants helped facilitate the intercourse trafficking run by Diddy, aka Sean Combs. Khorram has not publicly testified, however her cellphone was seized by the federal government final 12 months.
The jurors’ viewing of the clips got here after the morning session, the place Choose Arun Subramanian changed Juror No. 6 citing that he was inconsistent about his place of residence, noting that it led him to consider that he was “shading solutions” to get on the jury and keep on. “There’s nothing that the juror may say at this level that might put the genie again within the bottle,” Choose Subramanian acknowledged after Diddy’s attorneys protested the transfer.
