The prosecution rested Tuesday at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ intercourse trafficking trial, capping a six-week-long presentation of proof in opposition to the hip-hop maven that confronted him with former staff and two former girlfriends who expressed remorse at his therapy of them over the previous 20 years.
The transfer got here after protection lawyer Teny Geragos completed questioning the federal government’s ultimate witness: Joseph Cerciello, a Homeland Safety Investigations agent.
Prosecutors have cited the “freakoffs” as proof of intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy costs that resulted in Combs’ arrest final September.
Protection attorneys, although, say they had been consensual sexual encounters in step with the swingers way of life. Combs, 55, has pleaded not responsible and has remained incarcerated with out bail in a federal lockup in Brooklyn after a number of judges concluded final fall that he was a hazard to the group.
The federal government’s case has consisted of 34 witnesses, together with former staff of Combs’ Dangerous Boy Leisure firms, however the bulk of its proof has come from the testimony of two former girlfriends: Casandra “Cassie” Ventura and a mannequin and web character recognized to jurors solely by the pseudonym “Jane.”
Sources for victims of sexual assault can be found by the Nationwide Sexual Violence Sources Heart and the Nationwide Sexual Assault Phone Hotline at 800-656-4673.
