Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s ex-partner has given beginning two weeks after testifying in opposition to him – as his authorized staff failed in a bid to declare a mistrial.
Diddy trial day eleven – because it occurred
Combs, 55, is accused of two counts of intercourse trafficking by pressure, fraud, or coercion, two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution, and certainly one of conspiring to racketeer. He denies all the fees.
Cassie had given proof whereas she was greater than eight months pregnant. The 38-year-old advised the trial that Diddy subjected her to bodily, sexual and psychological abuse for a lot of their 11-year relationship.
She alleged he compelled her into “hundreds” of drug-fuelled intercourse periods with male escorts whereas he watched, which he known as “freak offs”.
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs depicted in a courtroom sketch on Wednesday. Pic: Reuters
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Diddy and Cassie at an occasion in 2016. Pic: zz/JMA/STAR MAX/IPx/AP
Alexandra Shapiro, certainly one of Diddy’s attorneys, moved for the mistrial simply earlier than the courtroom broke for lunch, throughout proof by Los Angeles Fireplace Division (LAFD) arson investigator Lance Jiminez.
In line with Ms Shapiro, Mr Jiminez’s declare that police destroyed fingerprint proof collected on the scene of an alleged 2012 Molotov cocktail assault on rapper Child Cudi’s automobile would lead the jury to imagine Combs had one thing to do with it.
She accused the prosecution of “misconduct” and claimed their questioning of Mr Jiminez was “designed to play into that” narrative.
One other of Diddy’s defence legal professionals Marc Agnifilo described the prosecution’s conduct as “outrageous”.
Nonetheless, prosecution lawyer Christy Slavik hit again by saying a mistrial was “completely unwarranted”.
She insisted questions concerning the destruction of proof had been requested to spotlight the poor high quality of the police investigation.
Choose Arun Subramanian dismissed the movement and as an alternative advised jurors to ignore any reference to the fingerprints.
Earlier on Wednesday, Los Angeles Police Division (LAPD) officer Chris Ignacio detailed the alleged break-in at Child Cudi’s residence in December 2011.
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LAPD officer Chris Igancio is questioned by Diddy’s lawyer on Wednesday. Pic: Reuters
He was known as to the scene and seen a Cadillac Escalade parked in entrance of the property, the quantity plate for which later transpired to be registered to Dangerous Boy Productions, Diddy’s report label.
Throughout his proof, Cudi alleged it was Diddy who was behind the break-in.
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Rapper Child Cudi exterior courtroom final week. Pic: AP
Mr Jiminez then testified about an alleged Molotov cocktail assault on Cudi’s automobile the next month.
Having investigated the incident, he concluded it was “not a random act” and that the makeshift firebomb had been positioned there intentionally, in keeping with Cudi’s claims.
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LA arson investigator Lance Jiminez is questioned in courtroom. Pic: Reuters
When Diddy and Cassie’s former stylist Mr Nash took to the stand, he detailed a number of incidents of alleged violence inflicted on the singer by her then associate.
On one event, Diddy turned up at her LA flat, “grabbed her by the hair”, “kicked her” and “hit her pretty hard”, he claimed.
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A courtroom sketch of Deonte Nash, a former stylist to Sean Combs and Cassie Ventura. Pic: Reuters
When she hit her head on a mattress body, she suffered a gash to her brow and eyebrow, he mentioned.
Each he and Mia, a second alleged witness, jumped on the rapper’s again to get him to cease, he advised the courtroom.
Diddy was violent in direction of him too, he mentioned, as soon as choking him in opposition to a automobile and threatening him to not exit with Cassie and with out him.
Regardless of all this, Mr Nash mentioned he “doesn’t hate” Diddy – and that he had been compelled to offer proof as a part of a subpoena.
Mia, which is a pseudonym used to guard her id, was as a result of begin her proof on Wednesday however Mr Nash’s testimony overran.
He’ll resume giving proof on Thursday, with Mia’s proof as a result of final till the courtroom breaks for the weekend.
The trial continues.
