Can Diddy Beat the Charges? Legal Experts Weigh In (Excl)

Within four weeks of witnesses to prosecute in trial Sean “Diddy” Combs They have painted the image of a monster – the post and the abuser attached to the control who is willing to do everything they need to bend the victims to his will. His former Casandra “Cassie” Ventura– Then eight months pregnant, tearfully resembled a beat and forced sex with men’s escorts for days. One former assistant claimed that Diddy raped him several times. Another former employee said he captured him in the gunpowder and rapper Kid Cudi testified that diddy broke into her house and placed porsche on fire After finding out that he had been involved in Ventura.

There is no doubt that the claims are shocking and disturbing. However, it is less certain whether they are enough to judge a shameful music mogul, 55. Diddy was arrested in September and face five federal charges: One amount of the Maila Salon Association, which carries a maximum sentence in imprisonment; Two sex trafficking with force, fraud or forced, which carries a maximum sentence in imprisonment and a minimum sentence of 15 years; and two calculates the transport to a prostitution, which is up to 10 years in prison. (He has denied all charges.) Diddy’s arresthis lawyer Marc Agnifilo casque US weekly In his statement, seven father is an incomplete person but not a criminal. “

The prosecutor must prove the shadow of the suspect that Diddy is a criminal whose members were engaged in sex trafficking, forced labor, arson service, bribery, and prevention of justice through violence, threats and compulsions. It’s going to be a heavy elevator, says a criminal lawyer Joshua Ritter. “All that Cassie has described is abnormal and horrifying, but it may not be criminal,” he says Us. TV reporter and lawyer Megyn’s kelly expressed similar thoughts during the commentator’s appearance Ben ShapiroShow 31 May, saying partly: “We really grow up to miss [Diddy] Gradually every day, but that does not necessarily mean that these are crimes. “

Ventura, 38, was a witness of the prosecutor’s star and gave the Searing certificate in detail with his toxic 11-year-and-and-and-and-and-and-andy relationship in the May department. He shared graphic details “Freak offs” where he claimed that he was forced to have sex with the escorts when Diddy looked. He also photographed merciless assault In Diddy’s hands and on May 14, the judge was shown video footage since 2016 when he was kicking and pulling him in the hotel lobby while trying to escape from a freak.

But legal experts point out that Diddy is not in trial domestic violence. “Both parties agree that there was domestic violence,” says the lawyer of the trafficking Kelly KelmanThe host of True-crime podcast Unresolved – diddy cases“But the Diddy is not accused of it.” Hyman says Us The defense claims that even if it happened, Ventura and Diddy’s relationship was “jealousy” and “consensus” and that his behavior does not meet “accusations of coexistence [or] Sex shop. “

The defense tries to prove that many witnesses who testified against Diddy agreed to his actions. Former personal assistant From Diddy’s, who went to the pseudonym “Mia,” claimed that he sexually attacked several times between 2009 and 2017. During the cross-study, Diddy’s lawyers pointed out that Mia had shared several glowing social media messages from her bosses and sent her texts by saying that Mia loved her (she told her that she was “brainwashing” and she feared “Power and Whor-” strong. “

Another former employee, Kauris Clarkclaimed that Diddy took him against the rapper’s Kid Cud’s home to “kill” Cud’s romance with Ventura. Clark said Diddy threatened to “kill” him if he told the authorities that he would have been inside the Cud home. Diddy lawyers described kidnapping trial Like a consensus, when Agnifilo stated that he told him at a meeting of 2024 that he volunteered to follow the Diddy to prevent him from doing “something stupid”. (Clark claimed that he did not remember it.) In a cross -study, Cudi admitted that he had left his doors to lock and that his home was not damaged.

The defense also pointed out that Ventura stayed with Diddy for more than ten years and noticed texts and emails in which he expressed his enthusiasm freak. At Shapiro’s exhibition Kelly said that the defense “is trying to show [Cassie] He was a willing participant … and that one reason he didn’t leave … Did he enjoy the lifestyle. “Ritter says,” If these people were willing participants, then we really do not have elements of crime here. “

Legal experts say that the prosecution has still progressed to the robbery. “Based on the certificate of Cassie,” Ritter says, “we don’t really see elements of robbery with a criminal attempt.” Both Ritter and Hyman say that it is likely to be a focus litigation Continue (expected to last for eight weeks).

There must be a crime, such as arson, sex shop or blackmail to adhere to these charges. Mother of Ventura, Regina Venturaproved that he paid diddy $ 20,000 after he threatened to release his daughter’s sex and June 3, Eddy GarciaFormer Security Director at a hotel where Diddy attacked Ventura said Diddy gave her $ 100,000 cash down In exchange for the footage of the reel.

In earlier appearances of courtroom, one former employee testified that he had bought drugs for Diddy and drove a rapper – who was then armed with weapons – to face His competitors Marion “SUGE” Knight. “They must definitely be other witnesses to witness how others participated in this criminal company,” Ritter predicts. “So far no one has taken the witness department and said,” Diddy told me … to go there and do arson, “says Hyman,” But there are them [many] More weeks to go. The prosecutor builds their enclosures brick with brick. “

Regardless of the judgment, DidDyn still has to fight More than 70 Civili -sexual violence trials that have been raised against him since November 2023. His legal team has constantly denied the allegations.

December the source told me Us Diddy spent a lot his time Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Area Arrest Center “prepares for defense and tries to stay positive”. Already he looks hopeful. An eyewitness who has participated litigation comprise Us The rapper seemed to be in a good mood on May 27. As he walked, he immediately looked at the two Rear lines of the public participant – mainly fans and journalists – he bowed a bit and put his hand on his chest in the signal of gratitude. “This gesture,” says eyewitness, “has become a common way.”

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