Diddy’s defense attorney challenges government’s narrative in high-stakes federal trial

Sean "Diddy" Combs retained transgression defence lawyer Teny Geragos arsenic portion of his ineligible squad aft his apprehension successful September.

The transgression defence attorney, known conscionable arsenic overmuch for her past sanction arsenic she is for her enactment successful the courtroom, archetypal earned fans past twelvemonth with societal media clips astir her rapper client.

Teny besides gained designation for her opening remarks during Diddy's national trial, wherever she argued that the lawsuit was astir "voluntary big choices," which the authorities was attempting to skew into a communicative to acceptable a enactment trafficking charge.

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Teny Geragos leads Sean "Diddy" Combs' defence squad successful his national proceedings for enactment crimes. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital; Photo by Amanda Edwards/WireImage)

Teny, the girl of transgression defence lawyer Mark Geragos, graduated from Loyola Law School Los Angeles successful 2016. Her begetter is known for representing respective high-profile clients, including Michael Jackson, Scott Peterson, Jussie Smollett, Colin Kaepernick and, astir recently, the Menendez brothers successful their pursuit of resentencing.

She past worked with Brafman & Associates for 8 years earlier becoming a founding spouse of Agnifilo Intrater.

She serves connected the committee of directors of the New York Criminal Bar Association and is certified to signifier instrumentality successful New York and California.

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Shortly aft Diddy was arrested successful New York aft a quality trafficking investigation, Teny claimed the media was pushing the incorrect communicative astir the "Last Night" rapper.

"There's nary minors, there's nary personage enactment tapes. The civilian lawsuits present are not driving the allegations that we're defending against, but it is driving the vitriol against him successful the media," Teny said connected an occurrence of "2 Angry Men."

Teny Geragos (Ted Shaffrey/AP Photo)

"It's unthinkable present what I'm witnessing," she said of the nationalist communicative astir Diddy. "A batch of allegations that person nary ground successful world whatsoever."

During opening statements of Diddy's trial, which began connected May 5, Teny asked the assemblage to see the national charges, not the choices of an at-times convulsive man.

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"Sean Combs is simply a analyzable man, but this is not a analyzable case," Teny told the court. "This lawsuit is astir love, jealousy, infidelity and money. This lawsuit is astir voluntary big choices made by susceptible adults and consensual relationships. This lawsuit is astir those real-life relationships, and the authorities is trying to crook those relationships into a racketeering case, a prostitution lawsuit and a enactment trafficking case. It volition not work."

Teny's father, Mark Geragos, precocious earned a tribunal triumph erstwhile his clients, the Menendez brothers, earned a resentencing hearing. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Teny described her lawsuit arsenic a "complicated man" during opening statements successful his national trial. (Jane Rosenberg)

Teny told the assemblage that they would perceive the "basics" done the lens of assorted witnesses and evidence. Most importantly, though, jurors would get the accidental to "finally" perceive the facts astir the case. 

"Sean Combs is simply a analyzable man, but this is not a analyzable case. This lawsuit is astir love, jealousy, infidelity and money. This lawsuit is astir voluntary big choices made by susceptible adults and consensual relationships."

"I accidental that due to the fact that this lawsuit is not astir what you've heard connected the news, work successful the quality oregon person seen connected societal media for the past twelvemonth and a half," Teny said. "This lawsuit is not astir what civilian attorneys looking for a payday are trying to marque my lawsuit retired to be. There has been a tremendous magnitude of sound astir this lawsuit for the past year, and it is clip to cancel that sound and perceive and spot the grounds that volition beryllium presented successful this courtroom."

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She noted that Diddy "has a atrocious temper" and astatine times gets "so aggravated oregon truthful jealous that helium is retired of control," but she emphasized that the "Victory" rapper was not charged with "being mean."

"He is not charged with being a jerk. He's charged with moving a racketeering enterprise," Teny said. "And though determination was unit that you are going to perceive about, you already have, that unit is not portion of immoderate RICO. That unit is not connected to enactment trafficking and that unit is not prostitution."

Diddy retained Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos to pb his defence team. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

During a caller occurrence of "2 Angry Men," Harvey Levin and Mark Geragos sat down with chap high-profile lawyer Joe Tacopina to speech astir the case. Tacopina has served arsenic a idiosyncratic lawyer for President Donald Trump and astir precocious won a large tribunal triumph portion representing rapper A$AP Rocky, who was recovered not blameworthy of transgression battle charges.

"He is not charged with being a jerk. He's charged with moving a racketeering enterprise."

"Your daughter, by the way, your girl is simply a terrific lawyer – Teny – I'm precise impressed," Tacopina told the men. "There's radical who are oregon children of large lawyers who go lawyers, and you cognize it's not the same."

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"I'm definite we're speechmaking each other's minds close now," Mark said. "That's wherefore I instrumentality that arsenic precocious praise for her, truthful I admit that."

"She is, she's thing else. I'm precise impressed with her," Tacopina continued. "That opening was phenomenal. Opening summations and transverse is my regular bread, it's what I love, it's what I studied, and what I truly perfected it, and that was arsenic bully arsenic I've seen."

Diddy was arrested and charged with aggregate counts successful September. (Shareif Ziyadat)

To wrapper the episode, Mark revealed that his all-star girl was large with his 2nd grandchild. "Four months yesterday, I think," Mark said.

Levin joked, "The New York assemblage is like, ‘Is everybody large successful this case?" Levin was apt referring to the prosecution’s "star witness," Diddy's ex, Cassie Ventura, who precocious gave commencement to her kid with hubby Alex Fine. Ventura testified against the rapper past month.

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.

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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.