Diddy Trial
White, Black Guys Dominate Day 2 of Jury Selection
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Diddy‘s defense team and federal prosecutors are adding 16 more potential jurors to the pool … and one of them has strong feelings about the Cassie beating video.
After 2 days of jury selection, there are now a total of 35 people in the jury pool. Today’s selections break down like this: 5 white men, 4 Black men, 3 Black women, 2 white women, 1 Latino man and 1 woman whose ethnicity isn’t clear.
A 2016 surveillance video obtained by CNN shows Sean “Diddy” Combs violently grab, shove, drag and kick his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura during an altercation in a hotel in California. https://t.co/qgD40mRPtQ pic.twitter.com/1u7qJgn3mC
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Perhaps the most interesting selection among that group was a man who told the judge he had seen the hotel surveillance video of Diddy attacking Cassie. He said Diddy looked “angry and hostile and entitled” during the brutal scene.
That information was not enough for the judge to excuse him. Obviously, prosecutors would not, and didn’t, take issue with a juror who has those feelings — but the defense did not object either.
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Of course, it’s not a slam dunk that guy ends up on the 12-person jury. Once they’ve picked enough people for the pool of potential jurors … prosecutors and the defense will whittle it down to 18, including the 6 alternates. Prosecutors get 6 preemptory challenges, and the defense gets 10 challenges, which they use to remove potential jurors without showing cause.
Worth noting — the jury will NOT be sequestered for the trial.
TMZ is covering all developments in detail for the length of the trial, and we’ve got answers to all your questions.
