Diddy Trial
White, Black Guys Dominate Day 2 of Jury Choice
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Diddy‘s protection staff and federal prosecutors are including 16 extra potential jurors to the pool … and one in all them has robust emotions concerning the Cassie beating video.
After 2 days of jury choice, there are actually a complete of 35 individuals within the jury pool. Immediately’s choices break down like this: 5 white males, 4 Black males, 3 Black girls, 2 white girls, 1 Latino man and 1 girl whose ethnicity is not clear.
A 2016 surveillance video obtained by CNN reveals Sean “Diddy” Combs violently seize, shove, drag and kick his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura throughout an altercation in a resort in California. https://t.co/qgD40mRPtQ pic.twitter.com/1u7qJgn3mC
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Maybe essentially the most attention-grabbing choice amongst that group was a person who informed the decide he had seen the resort surveillance video of Diddy attacking Cassie. He stated Diddy seemed “angry and hostile and entitled” through the brutal scene.
That data was not sufficient for the decide to excuse him. Clearly, prosecutors wouldn’t, and did not, take difficulty with a juror who has these emotions — however the protection didn’t object both.
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After all, it is not a slam dunk that the man finally ends up on the 12-person jury. As soon as they’ve picked sufficient individuals for the pool of potential jurors … prosecutors and the protection will whittle it all the way down to 18, together with the 6 alternates. Prosecutors get 6 preemptory challenges, and the protection will get 10 challenges, which they use to take away potential jurors with out exhibiting trigger.
Price noting — the jury will NOT be sequestered for the trial.
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