Diddy’s team has used the ‘Loving’ texts to compete with the allegations
Scene “Didi” Combes protects after brief testimony in its sex trafficking trial. Closed arguments begin on Thursday as the gamblers have designed to decide their fate; He faces life in jail when he is convicted.
In short
- Lawyers of Sean Comombs presented defense in their sex trafficking trial on Tuesday.
- He showed the texts where the accused Kaisi expressed love and consent for ‘Freak of’.
- The prosecutors rested after six weeks, accused of forcing and abusing sexual activities.
The lawyers of Scene “Didi” Combes spent half an hour, putting half an hour on their customer’s sex trafficking trial, paved the way for the gamblers to listen to the final argument before weighing the fate of the hip-hop Mogul.
The defense included showing the gamblers’ text messages, including one of the accused in the combs, the rhythm and the blues singer Cassandra Ventura said she loves her and suggested that she enjoyed participating in the sexual performance known as “Freak Offs”.
Federal prosecutors rested their case against the first Combes in the day after more than six weeks of testimony.
The 55 -year -old Comombs has requested not to be guilty in five cases of conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to engage in prostitution. He decided not to testify.
In American criminal cases, defendants do not need to present evidence, and judges directed the judges that they do not refuse to testify against the defendants. To win a guilty verdict, prosecutors must prove their matters beyond a proper suspicion.
The government’s case against Comombs included allegations that the founder of the Bad Boy Records forced two former girlfriends to sexually perform with male sex workers, while he saw, masturbation and sometimes filmed.
The witnesses included an ex -girlfriend Ventura, known as Cash, and a woman known in court by a pseudo -name Jane.
In several days of testimony, the two stated that Combes defeated them, threatened to cut financial aid, and leaked sex tapes.
Comombs lawyers have admitted that their customers were sometimes violent in domestic relationships, but argued that “Freak of” was consent.
On Tuesday, defense lawyer Anna Estawao read several messages to gamblers, from tender to sexually explicitly, that Ventura had sent Combes during their long -term long -term relationship.
In a 2012 message, Ventura wrote to Comombs, “Apart from love, it is my favorite thing to talk to you.”
Five years later, Ventura told Comombs in a series of messages that she missed her, asked her to send a picture of her genitals, and promised to “be her little eccentric”.
Outside the presence of the jury, Estawao told the court that messages revealed that Combes believed that “Freak of” was consent.
“She is telling Mr. Comombs that she would be her small craze, which is likely to be as a state of mind whether she was ready to engage in such sexual activity,” Estawao said.
Witnesses of an prosecution, forensic psychologist Don Hughes told the gamblers that people suffering from sexual violence often develop “trauma bonds” with their colleagues, making it difficult to give up abusive relationships.
US District Judge Arun Subramanian, who has oversee the trial in the Manhattan federal court, is expected to meet with lawyers on Wednesday to discuss the jury’s instructions.
The closed argument on Thursday is expected to begin, and the jury cannot begin deliberately on Friday or Monday.
If convicted in all five cases, Combes face 15 years of jail sentence and can face life behind bars.