Diddy Trial
Choose Slaps Down Movement For Mistrial
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The choose has lastly weighed in on whether or not to grant Diddy a mistrial … and he is giving the disgraced music mogul an enormous thumbs down.
Hell no, Choose Arun Subramanian advised Diddy because the twentieth day of his federal racketeering and intercourse trafficking trial kicked off Tuesday.
Keep in mind, this entire situation got here up final week when Bryana Bongolan — Cassie‘s good friend — took the stand and testified Diddy dangled her over the sting of a Seventeenth-floor balcony at Cassie’s Los Angeles house round September 26, 2016.
Beforehand, Cassie had testified she witnessed Diddy holding Bongolan over the balcony’s edge, however Diddy’s protection group offered textual content messages between Cassie and Diddy’s former chief of workers, Kristina Khorram, that poked holes in Cassie’s testimony.
In a single textual content message, Cassie indicated she by no means really noticed the alleged balcony incident, saying, “I just found out some crazy s***.”
In fact, Diddy’s legal professionals pounced on the discrepancy, submitting a movement for a mistrial that accused prosecutors of providing testimony they knew — or ought to’ve identified — was false.
Diddy’s protection additionally blasted prosecutors for presenting images purportedly exhibiting accidents Bongolan suffered in the course of the alleged balcony incident.
The attorneys cited metadata from the pics they are saying show the photographs have been shot September 26, 2016, when Diddy was on the East Coast — not the West Coast.
Prosecutors nonetheless have not responded to Diddy’s Saturday movement for a mistrial, however in court docket, they clarified that Cassie’s textual content appeared to point the balcony incident occurred round September 29 or 30, 2016.
As you already know, Diddy is on trial for allegedly committing a slew of federal crimes, together with racketeering and intercourse trafficking.
