CassieEmotional testimony in Sean “Diddy” Combs“The current trial could potentially support racketeering accusations against him, according to a legal expert.
“It is a very hard -hitting witness of emotion,” said the lawyer Joshua Ritterwhich is not involved in the case, exclusively said US Weekly Friday May 16. “She is eight and a half months pregnant. She is in tears on the stand, and she can give an overview of how it works.”
Cassie (full name Casandra Ventura) took the position on Tuesday May 13, before ending on Friday. The 38 -year -old singer spoke about her experience with Diddy, 55, with whom she came out from 2007 to 2018, and approached her alleged “Freak off” parties. Diddy, who was arrested in September 2024, was accused of sexual traffic, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. (He pleaded not guilty to all accusations.)
“Part of this case is not only racketeering, but the underlying abusive behavior that racketeering facilitated,” added Ritter. “So, it could provide part of it, but they will certainly have to testify to the way others participated in this criminal enterprise.”
Ritter explained that if the details of Cassie’s testimony were “shocking and deviant and appalling”, the recalled behavior is “not necessarily criminal”. However, Ritter shared that observers will have to wait until the accusation continues to present his argument in the coming weeks.
“This will be a case that is proven by layers on strata of evidence, and I imagine that ultimately the accusation will be able to link all these points,” he said We. “But it is true that simply on the basis of the testimony of Cassie, we do not really see the elements of the racketeering, which would imply a criminal business. There [have] I have been allusions to other security guards and other assistants and people working for Sean Combs who may have helped to facilitate all of this. »»
While Cassie’s testimony alone has not entirely discussed the accusations that Diddy is confronted, the question of whether the consent was really present can remain at the back of the jury’s mind.
“Yes, all this can be horrible. Everything may seem humiliating and all this may seem very disturbing, but if she was a voluntary participant or if these other people were voluntary participants, then we really do not have the elements of a crime here,” said Ritter. “Now the defense, I think, has done a very good job by describing the text conversations she had with combs during and after several of these monsters.”
Cassie spoke of his emotional testimony in the trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs. Cassie’s lawyer Douglas Wigdor read a statement on behalf of the singer outside the Daniel Patrick Moynihan courthouse in New York on Friday May 16, according to several points of sale. “This week was extremely difficult but also remarkably stimulating and healing […]
Ritter added that the prosecution team should say that being an alleged “voluntary participant” was “part of the abuse cycle”.
“The accusation will then have the burden of showing the jurors how it is and how many times the victims of abuse will even participate shocking or seem to participate in their abuse,” he said. “And I probably think that the proof that we have seen which is the most demonstrative is the video band of the assault which took place at the hotel here in Los Angeles. I imagine that the prosecutors will say that it shows someone who tries to escape, who shows someone who tries to withdraw from the situation and to beat him physically and to bring her back in his own way.”
This argument will be difficult to make, warned Ritter.
“If someone suffers from this kind of abuse, he will say very surprising things and perhaps things that are difficult to understand, like text messages that might seem that she participates,” he continued. “It will be an argument that will certainly be something that the pursuit will probably have the most difficult time, it is how you show that these people did not agree and vocalized that they did not agree? Because even if they do not consent, but which did not take place in their own head, it is not enough to satisfy the elements of non-consensible sexual assault.”
Cassie continues her testimony in the trial of her ex-little friend Sean “Diddy” Combs on Wednesday, May 14, answering questions from the accusation at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan courthouse in New York. Diddy was arrested in September 2024 and accused of sex trafficking, racket conspiracy and transport to engage in prostitution. He pleaded […]
Diddy’s arrest occurred almost a year after Cassie brought legal action accusing her ex of sexual and physical violence throughout their relationship. Diddy denied his claims in a statement shared by his lawyer.
“M. Combs vehemently denies these offensive and scandalous allegations, “said Diddy’s lawyer Ben Brafman said in November 2023.
One day after filing the pursuit, Diddy and Cassie settled amicably. She said earlier this week that the regulations were $ 20 million.
In May 2024, CNN published a surveillance video of the Hotel of Diddy Kicking and striking Cassie in 2016. He then apologized for his actions in a video shared via Instagram.
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