Diddy jury problem could have been 'completely avoided' with one measure, expert says

After 1 juror successful Sean "Diddy" Combs' national proceedings was dismissed Monday, questions arose surrounding imaginable problems with different subordinate of the jury.

The U.S. Attorney's Office noted successful a missive filed Monday that portion it does not reason further fact-finding measures for a 2nd juror due to imaginable communications with a erstwhile workfellow regarding assemblage service, the authorities does not hold with Diddy's ineligible team, who argued successful enactment of excusing the juror.  

Attorney David S. Seltzer exclusively told Fox News Digital that this assemblage occupation could person been wholly avoided had Judge Arun Subramanian asked to sequester the assemblage from the opening of the rapper's enactment crimes trial. 

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Potential juror issues threatened the Sean "Diddy" Combs proceedings erstwhile again. (Jane Rosenberg)

Seltzer said that issues wrong the jury make a fig of problems due to the fact that "now you person a juror who's tainted," helium opined.

"He oregon she is discussing the facts of this lawsuit extracurricular the beingness of the jury, arsenic instructed by the court, which, again, circles backmost to time 1 of this trial," Seltzer surmised. "Why wasn't the assemblage sequestered?"

It's unclear what the imaginable communications are astatine this point, and the prosecution and defence are expected to code the contented connected Tuesday.

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"To debar these issues, the assemblage is not expected to look astatine societal media. The assemblage is not expected to work the news. The assemblage was instructed not to sermon it connected the train, not to speech to your hubby oregon woman oregon partner, to fundamentally unrecorded successful a bubble for each this time," Seltzer added. 

Judge Arun Subramanian was nominated to the national tribunal by erstwhile president Joe Biden. (Tom Williams)

Seltzer added, "It's impossible. It's an intolerable task that the justice has asked these radical to do, and the information that nary juror has been dismissed astatine this constituent for origin based connected their usurpation of these rules to maine is the astir shocking."

Former national authoritative Neama Rahmani agreed that jurors are expected to travel rules of the court, oregon look the consequences.

"It's an intolerable task that the justice has asked these radical to do, and the information that nary juror has been dismissed astatine this constituent for origin based connected their usurpation of these rules to maine is the astir shocking."

"Talking astir the lawsuit is strictly forbidden," Rahmani told Fox News Digital. "The juror tin accidental they are seated connected a sheet and springiness the anticipated magnitude of the trial, but that’s astir it. If a juror is speaking astir the lawsuit successful usurpation of their oath, that is grounds to person them removed and replaced with an alternate."

Before grounds began Monday, juror No. 6 was dismissed from the lawsuit and replaced by the archetypal alternate juror. Discussion astir dismissing juror No. 6 began past week aft the prosecution pointed retired inconsistencies successful statements regarding his residency.

On Friday, the prosecution said juror No. 6 successful Combs' trial disclosed that helium precocious moved to New Jersey with his woman and has been staying determination for astir of the trial. When helium was questioned down closed doors, the juror said helium was staying successful New York 4 to 5 nights. He besides said his girl was calved successful New Jersey and lives there, but helium lives successful New York City.

A juror was dismissed from Diddy's proceedings Monday, and different juror whitethorn look akin consequences Tuesday. (Jane Rosenberg)

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"Talking astir the lawsuit is strictly forbidden. The juror tin accidental they are seated connected a sheet and springiness the anticipated magnitude of the trial, but that’s astir it."

"There is thing the juror tin accidental astatine this constituent that tin enactment the genie backmost successful the vessel and repair his credibility …" the justice said successful tribunal up of proceedings testimony. 

As to the concerns astir diversity, Judge Subramanian said this assemblage does not rise those concerns. Combs' ineligible squad had asked to support the juror owed to his ethnicity and requested a mistrial should the juror beryllium dismissed.

Judge Subramanian besides noted determination was nary grounds of prosecutorial misconduct.

Despite issues wrong the assemblage pool, Seltzer noted that Diddy's ineligible squad has, frankincense far, done a "great job" with his defense. 

Jurors successful the Sean "Diddy" Combs national proceedings heard grounds from summary witnesser Anaya Sankar. (Jane Rosenberg)

"I don't judge they privation a mistrial astatine this point," Seltzer said. "They're going to marque their motions for mistrial pursuant to the law. The justice is going to contradict them, and what they're doing is preserving their remedies for appeal. But yet again, I don't spot the authorities gathering their load beyond a tenable doubt."

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In summation to a erstwhile Bad Boy Entertainment employee, Diddy's alleged cause mule, Brendan Paul, is expected to attest Tuesday. Paul was granted immunity for his testimony, and the prosecution is expected to wrapper earlier the extremity of the week.

Seltzer doesn't judge Diddy volition instrumentality the basal and testify, arsenic the defence volition apt "limit their lawsuit to precise minimal experts and witnesses." 

"The authorities hasn't met their burden. They're trying to convict Mr. Combs for being a atrocious actor," Seltzer said. "That doesn't mean helium violated the instrumentality successful national court."

"The authorities hasn't met their burden. They're trying to convict Mr. Combs for being a atrocious actor. That doesn't mean helium violated the instrumentality successful national court."

In a national indictment unsealed connected Sept. 17, Combs was charged with racketeering conspiracy (RICO); enactment trafficking by force, fraud oregon coercion; and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution. If recovered guilty, helium faces a minimum of 15 years down bars oregon a maximum condemnation of beingness successful prison. (Jane Rosenberg)

He added, "As overmuch arsenic you mightiness deliberation helium is simply a monster, oregon a pistillate batterer, helium didn't perpetrate racketeering and helium didn't perpetrate enactment trafficking due to the fact that each these witnesses brought successful earlier the assemblage present person each talked astir however they consented." 

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In a national indictment unsealed connected Sept. 17, Combs was charged with racketeering conspiracy (RICO); enactment trafficking by force, fraud oregon coercion; and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution. If recovered guilty, helium faces a minimum of 15 years down bars oregon a maximum condemnation of beingness successful prison.

He has maintained his innocence passim the trial, successful which witnesses person testified to alleged rape, intersexual assault, terrible carnal abuse, forced labour and cause trafficking. The proceedings is expected to wrapper by July 4.