third UPDATE, 7:15 AM: After lower than an hour of deliberation at the moment, the jury in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-trafficking trial have a verdict.
They’re returning to the decrease Manhattan courtroom, the place the Dangerous Boy Information founder, his attorneys and household, are already assembled.
2nd UPDATE, July 1 PM: The jury in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-trafficking trial will probably be again Wednesday to deliberate on the racketeering cost in opposition to the much-accused Grammy winner.
After a white-knuckle last hour Tuesday within the decrease Manhattan courtroom, the place it seemed like there might be a mistrial or a partial verdict, the eight males and 4 girls panel have simply left for the day with a promise to return. They may get again into it at 9 a.m. ET tomorrow on Rely 1, the racketeering cost. Whereas what the partial verdicts are continues to be sealed and unknown, the jury had reached some consensus on the 2 sex-trafficking expenses and the 2 expenses of transportation to have interaction in prostitution that Combs faces.
What is thought is that if these verdicts are responsible, the not responsible pleading and plea deal refusing Combs (who’s dealing with life behind bars) will probably be taking a look at some not insignificant jail time, even with an anticipated attraction. With the July 4th vacation developing quick, it is rather probably, primarily based on human habits, that there might be a conclusion of types to this trial, which began on Might 12, by EOD Wednesday.
Tuesday was the second day of deliberations by the jury.
1st UPDATE, 1:45 PM: The jury in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-trafficking trial have a partial verdict, however in a uncommon second of settlement each the prosecution and the protection need them to proceed deliberations.
Proper close to the top of this second day of the eight males and 4 girls of the jury being behind closed doorways, the panel despatched a be aware to Choose Arun Subramanian saying they’re caught. In a scenario reminiscent of the newest Harvey Weinstein retrial only a few weeks in the past, the jurors have a verdict on 4 of the 5 expenses in opposition to the Dangerous Boy Information founder, however can’t attain a conclusion on the sprawling racketeering cost.
Not like within the Weinstein case, which noticed responsible verdicts on some counts and one other retrial within the providing, each side have given the Choose proposals to maintain the jury going.
The U.S. Legal professional’s workplace of the Southern District of New York need Choose Subramanian to offer the 12 jurors an variation on an Allen That will ask them to take time to consider their very own POV, the proof, and any bias they could have that’s stopping them from coming to a verdict. The Marc Agnifilo, Teny Geragoes and Brian Metal-led 10 lawyer protection need the jury to maintain speaking however don’t suppose there’s a have to take it to Def Con 3 with an Allen cost, but.
Combs is within the decrease Manhattan courtroom proper now as his destiny and freedom is being decided in very real-time.
After months of allegations, a really rapidly settled ($20 million) abuse and assault swimsuit from former girlfriend Cassie Ventura, raids by Homeland Safety, and a slew of civil fits, Combs was arrested on September in New York Metropolis. The All Concerning the Benjamins performer is dealing with federal expenses of racketeering, intercourse trafficking, transportation to have interaction in prostitution and extra. Having failed repeated to safe a $50 million bail, he has been in custody at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Heart ever since.
If discovered responsible on all the costs 55-year-old Combs might spend the remainder of his life in a federal jail. Even a partial verdict would see Diddy behind bars for years.
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PREVIOUSLY, JUNE 30 AM: Sean “Diddy” Combs’ destiny is now within the palms of the 12 individuals on his New York jury.
The eight males and 4 girls within the Dangerous Boy Information founder’s six-week lengthy sex-trafficking trial have formally begun their deliberations.
Arrested in September, as dozens of civil instances of abuse and assault piled up, the much-accused Combs is up in opposition to federal expenses of racketeering, intercourse trafficking, transportation to have interaction in prostitution and extra. Final week, the Division of Justice prosecutors dropped and downgraded a number of the claims in what they referred to as an transfer to “streamline” the case.
That flip did little to really alter the composition of the matter, or its potential end result.
In custody at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Heart for the previous 9 months, regardless of quite a few failed makes an attempt at getting out on a $50 million bail, the 55-year previous Combs might spend the remainder of his life behind bars if the jury delivers a responsible verdict.
“The proof is the testimony and the displays,” Choose Arun Subramanian instructed the jurors in his decrease Manhattan courtroom this morning.
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The eight phrases in that sentence by the decide raised by implication the generally intestine wrenching tales of alleged violence and degradation at Combs’ hand given underneath oath by the likes of Combs’ former longtime girlfriend Cassie Ventura (who was closely pregnant throughout her testimony), and, underneath pseudonyms used at trial by fellow sexual assault accusers “Jane” and former Combs worker “Mia.” As effectively, numerous ex-staffers to the Grammy winner, male escorts employed for the drug propelled and steadily filmed “freak-off” intercourse classes, legislation enforcement, resort safety guards, and others took the stand throughout the trial.
“You’re the sole and unique arbiters of the info,” he added. The federal decide then suggested them to rigorously take a look at “every witness’ credibility, the reality and significance of their testimony. Dimension her or him up. It’s essential to determine.”
Sean “Diddy” Combs listens throughout opening statements on Day One in all his trial in Manhattan federal courtroom, Might 12, 2025 (Elizabeth Williams through AP)
With closing arguments by prosecutors from the U.S. Legal professional’s workplace of the Southern District of New York and Combs’ 10-lawyer sturdy protection over late on June 27, the primary enterprise at the moment for Choose Subramanian, apart from studying the costs themselves, was giving the jurors their formal directions. Boring however important by definition, the educational course of within the proceedings at this level in any prison trial is all about establishing parameters.
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The significance of these boundaries of types was made very clear final week by the trouble and horse-trading by the events on what the decide might and couldn’t inform the jury to think about.
All mentioned and achieved, it took Choose Subramanian simply over an hour to learn out the jury directions Monday morning. As he has been day-after-day of his trial and through most pre-trial hearings, Combs was in attendance at the moment. Although a number of the Combs’ youngsters have been current at trial greater than others over the previous month and a half, a parade of automobiles dropped off a full contingent of Combs’ little kids to pack the courtroom Monday.
Microphones are arrange outdoors the Sean “Diddy” Combs’ intercourse trafficking and racketeering jury deliberations in Manhattan on June 30, 2025 (Picture by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Photos)
Even earlier than the closely media lined and sometimes horrifically sordid and harrowing trial started on Might 12, Choose Subramanian had mentioned he wished to attempt to ensure issues have been achieved by the July 4 vacation.
In that sense, he efficiently made his personal deadline. Definitely, the decide was helped in no small half by the protection’s case lasting round half-hour final week, with no witnesses, no testimony and, most telling and unsurprising, no Diddy taking the stand.
Nonetheless, with all of the nastiness and nuances of this matter, a verdict by the non-sequestered jury within the subsequent three days appears a long-shot — however not unimaginable. Not unimaginable in any respect.
