Missing witnesses and lingering questions plague prosecution as Diddy trial nears conclusion: expert

The authorities is expected to wrapper up its lawsuit against Sean "Diddy" Combs connected Monday aft much than six weeks of grounds from a fig of witnesses.

Jury selection for the rapper's enactment crimes proceedings began connected May 5, and the prosecution called its past witnesser to the basal Friday aft proceeding Diddy's erstwhile assistant, alleged "drug mule" Brendan Paul, attest astir his clip employed by the Bad Boy Records founder.

Diddy's ineligible team, headed by Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos, initially indicated they would request upwards of 2 weeks to plead their case, but told Judge Arun Subramanian past week that they whitethorn beryllium capable to remainder by Tuesday oregon Wednesday. 

Despite the proceedings coming to a close, erstwhile national authoritative Neama Rahmani admitted that lingering questions stay with the case, including questions astir missing cardinal witnesses. 

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Sean "Diddy" Combs' national proceedings is nearing its decision pursuing much than six weeks of testimony. (Jane Rosenberg)

"What happened to Gina, who was Victim 3 successful the indictment? The authorities said they were incapable to get a clasp of her, and she did not testify," Rahmani said. "Was she afraid, embarrassed, paid disconnected by Combs, oregon was determination different crushed wherefore she didn’t comply with the subpoena? Regardless, it was a mistake by the prosecution to database her arsenic a unfortunate erstwhile they did not person assurances that she would appear. They should person known Combs has the resources to endanger oregon wage witnesses not to attest and person planned accordingly." 

There person been nary allegations successful tribunal that Diddy threatened oregon paid witnesses not to testify.

Rahmani besides wondered wherefore Diddy's main of staff, Kristina "KK" Khorram, wasn't called to testify. Brendan Paul testified Friday that KK "basically ran the enterprise."

During the grounds of summary witnesser Anaya Sankar, the assemblage was shown substance messages betwixt Diddy’s ex Cassie Ventura and KK dated May 2, 2017. Cassie was telling KK that the "Last Night" vocalist allegedly had locked the doorway and dragged her by her hair. 

"What happened to Gina, who was Victim 3 successful the indictment? The authorities said they were incapable to get a clasp of her, and she did not testify."

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More substance messages betwixt Cassie and KK dated April 20, 2018, showed Cassie saying she can’t instrumentality the unit and being kicked retired of her ain home. KK responded, "I don’t cognize what other to say, but I’m here…" Cassie past wrote, "I conscionable privation to enactment focused."

Diddy listened to grounds from an ex-girlfriend, who testified nether the nickname Jane. (Jane Rosenberg)

Cassie, who was large with her 3rd kid portion taking the stand, testified implicit the people of 4 days successful Diddy's trial. (Jane Rosenberg)

The assemblage was past shown substance messages betwixt KK and Diddy’s much caller ex-girlfriend, who testified nether the pseudonym Jane. She alleged that Diddy had forced her to person enactment with antheral escorts during "hotel nights" and that occasionally the enactment league was recorded.

A substance connection sent to KK from Jane was shown to the jury, which claimed Combs was threatening to merchandise the alleged enactment tapes. Jane wrote, "You’re his righthand woman…maybe he’ll perceive to you…" The connection was sent connected Feb. 18, 2024.

"Many see her to beryllium Combs’ Ghislaine Maxwell due to the fact that she knows wherever the proverbial bodies are buried," Rahmani told Fox News Digital. "Khorram was really progressive successful the alleged enactment and cause trafficking and could person been charged arsenic a co-conspirator. The authorities should person leaned connected her to flip against her erstwhile boss. Instead, they gave her a walk by simply speechmaking her substance messages into evidence."

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Rahmani questioned wherefore Diddy's ex-girlfriends, including Cassie, Mia and Jane, didn't permission if they had been sexually assaulted and trafficked.  

"The authorities enactment connected adept Dawn Hughes to explicate the science of abuse, but that is the biggest question successful the case," Rahmani admitted. "Did the victims enactment due to the fact that they wanted the wealth and fame that came with being Combs’ partner? If so, did they consent to the ‘freak offs’ portion they were happening?" 

Cassie and Diddy dated for astir a decennary earlier ending their narration successful 2018. (Getty Images)

The U.S. Attorney's Office provided photograph grounds of alleged maltreatment Cassie Ventura endured. (SDNY)

"Was this rape, oregon truly regret and resentment? I’m not definite prosecutors person afloat answered this question and this is the aforesaid statement the defence raised with immoderate occurrence successful the Harvey Weinstein retrial."

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What the assemblage volition determine remains the biggest question successful the case. Attorney Nicole Blank Becker, who represents R. Kelly, told Fox News Digital that jurors, conscionable similar anyone else, person a hard clip separating emotions from charges.

"When you perceive astir the horrible actions of P. Diddy, not lone here, but past you spot the actions connected a video, and astatine immoderate point, the assemblage volition beryllium told, ‘OK,’ possibly that it was a home violence, but that's not truly what this is about. It's astir thing bigger," Becker said. "The thought that the jurors volition beryllium capable to abstracted that successful their caput is highly unlikely, adjacent though they volition beryllium told to. And there's a batch of demonstrative grounds successful this case, is my understanding. 

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"My acquisition erstwhile I was successful the lawsuit with R. Kelly, those types of things are often utilized not lone to amusement what the government's trying to bring, amusement successful their case, but it decidedly brings an affectional broadside to a human, and sometimes that affectional portion – It's precise hard to place erstwhile you're backmost determination arsenic a juror." 

"The thought that the jurors volition beryllium capable to abstracted that successful their caput is highly unlikely, adjacent though they volition beryllium told to."

She added, "I tin lone ideate the trouble that determination indispensable beryllium erstwhile you were backmost successful a assemblage country to benignant of abstracted if you deliberation he's a bully idiosyncratic oregon a atrocious person, due to the fact that that's not what they're determination for, right? Therefore, they're backmost determination to fundamentally cheque disconnected boxes. If the authorities has done this, cheque it off. If the authorities has done that, cheque it off. Better stake that they're besides backmost determination talking about, ‘Oh my god, tin you judge what helium did successful this video?'"

The tribunal viewed footage from the 2016 InterContinental edifice incidental during Diddy's national trial. (Jane Rosenberg)

Becker noted that grounds and grounds whitethorn get misconstrued, and that the assemblage has to abstracted emotions from fact.

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"Some of it, I deliberation it gets minced," Becker said. "It becomes … highly hard really to accidental to yourself, 'OK self, I'm not expected to fto myself beryllium emotionally progressive successful this. I'm expected to conscionable perceive to the law, and past enactment the facts successful wherever the instrumentality is appropriate.'" 

"I cognize successful [R. Kelly's] case, I tin lone ideate however hard that indispensable person been. And I deliberation that that's going to besides beryllium different hard portion of the Diddy lawsuit arsenic well."