The first weapons between the accusation and the defense were expected as of Monday, May 12 in the rapper and producer P. Diddy, an essential hip-hop figure, accused of having put their empire at the service of violent traffic.
It is expected that the jury selection, which began a week ago for this trial, one of the most anticipated of the year in the United States, ends Monday at the Federal Court of Manhattan.
Judge Arun Subramanian will give his first instructions to the 12 jurors. The latter will remain in anonymity and have to make sure you stay away from the comments on social networks and the treatment of the media of this case examined closely.
They will have to say that, after about two months of judgment, if the rapper and 55 -year -old producer was guilty of sexual exploitation traffic, transport of people for prostitution purposes, as well as acts of kidnapping, corruption and violence grouped under the accusation of the criminal company.
Preliminary accusation and defense argument
The debates must begin on Monday with a preliminary accusation of the accusation. Prosecutors want to convince the jury members that P. Diddy, an artist with multiple Grammys, who has also produced many rappers, has made at least 2004 their notoriety, their power and their financial means at the service of trafficking that forced women to have a long sex with sex workers.
According to the accusation, P. Diddy, whose real name is Com Coms, forced its employees to distribute drugs to the victims during these sexual marathons called “monsters”, sometimes recorded on video. They would also have had the task of silencing them later.
The founder of Bad Boy Records, who had stars under his wing as the soul of Queen Hip -hop Mary J. Blige or rapper The Notorious Big, killed in 1997, affirms his innocence and ensures that he has only had sex. He rejected a guilt agreement proposed by the accusation, whose details have not been revealed. The defense will have the floor for its first supplication after the accusation, then the witness parade will begin.
Cassie, one of the key witnesses in the case
The R&B Cassie singer, who was in a relationship with Diddy, will be one of the most anticipated witnesses. A video broadcast last year by CNN and captured by surveillance cameras had shown Sean Combs violently unleashed against her in 2016 in a hotel in Los Angeles.
The singer had filed a civil complaint against the producer in the autumn of 2023, the prosecution was immediately established. But from then on, several dozen civilians of women and men were presented.
P. Diddy was arrested in the fall of 2024 in Manhattan. Since then, the one that the hair has embedded during its appearances in the Court, sleeps behind bars, at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center, an institution known for its complaints due to unhealthy conditions and violence.
Source: BFM TV
