Diddy Trial: Rapper Faces Jury In Opinionated Ny Hometown In Bid For Freedom On Sex Trafficking Charges

Sean "Diddy" Combs' ineligible squad and nan prosecution successful his sex-trafficking lawsuit will group retired to prime a assemblage of 12 connected Monday.

Combs will look successful tribunal alongside his lead lawyers – Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos – to statesman voir dire. The questioning process will beryllium conducted by Judge Arun Subramanian, Diddy's lawyers and nan prosecutors who person been moving connected nan case.

Authorities charged Diddy pinch aggregate counts of racketeering conspiracy, activity trafficking by force, fraud aliases coercion and transporting for adultery successful an indictment unsealed successful September. Since then, nan authorities has revenge 2 superseding indictments against nan rapper that added charges and an further victim. Diddy has pleaded not blameworthy to nan charges against him.

Diddy's squad and nan prosecution were allotted 5 days to spot nan jury, which will apt beryllium a "difficult" process, ineligible experts told Fox News Digital. Diddy and nan authorities are facing disconnected successful nan rapper's hometown of New York, creating an uphill conflict for nan disgraced euphony mogul.

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Sean "Diddy" Combs' activity trafficking proceedings originates pinch assemblage action connected May 5. (George Napolitano/FilmMagic)

"Everyone successful nan country, and nan full world, knows astir nan allegations against Diddy, truthful moving nan proceedings to different venue extracurricular of New York won’t alteration anything," erstwhile national charismatic Neama Rahmani told Fox News Digital. "The prosecution wants to make judge location aren’t immoderate Diddy fans aliases stealth jurors connected nan panel. The defense wants jurors who are skeptical astir #MeToo and victims who make allegations years later and record civilian lawsuits seeking damages. The only personification who wants a adjacent and impartial assemblage is nan judge."

The existent situation for Diddy's defense and nan prosecution is uncovering jurors who don't person an sentiment connected nan disgraced euphony mogul's case.

"Diddy is 1 of nan astir recognizable names successful euphony and popular culture, and nan nationalist attraction surrounding nan allegations is enormous," New York-based defense lawyer Duncan Levin told Fox News Digital. "In high-profile cases for illustration this, nan situation isn’t conscionable uncovering jurors who person heard of nan suspect – it’s uncovering ones who haven’t already formed an opinion based connected media coverage. That’s why voir dire successful this lawsuit will beryllium lengthy and strategic.

"The defense will beryllium focused connected rooting retired bias, and nan prosecution will beryllium moving to guarantee nan jurors don’t bring preconceived personage favoritism into nan courtroom."

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Diddy's Los Angeles and Miami homes were raided by Homeland Security successful March 2024. (Getty Images)

Media sum of Diddy exploded successful March 2024 aft nan rapper's Miami and Los Angeles homes were raided successful relationship pinch a quality trafficking investigation by Homeland Security. The intersexual battle allegations brought against Diddy successful civilian cases and nan national indictment person been mostly covered, creating a imaginable rumor for an impartial jury.

"Most imaginable jurors will person heard of nan lawsuit and will person formed immoderate sentiment of what happened," intermezo lawyer Tre Lovell told Fox News Digital. "That being said, nan existent mobility is: Can nan jurors put speech immoderate first thoughts they person and beryllium capable to determine nan lawsuit based solely connected nan evidence?"

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While high-profile assemblage action tin beryllium difficult, it's not impossible, arsenic seen successful President Donald Trump's caller New York City trial. The criminal proceedings regarding his hush money payments began connected April 15, 2024.

"Just by measurement of example, they were capable to spot a Manhattan assemblage for personification for illustration Donald Trump," New York-based lawyer Mark Weissman explained to Fox News Digital. "I deliberation they will beryllium capable to spot a assemblage for Diddy’s trial. And nan jurors will capable retired questionnaires earlier they meet nan judge, which will thief nan judge to further limit nan excavation to jurors who person constricted knowledge astir nan case, and nan participants."

"But, of course, moreover jurors successful Manhattan will apt cognize astir Diddy, and I expect galore will person heard of aliases publication astir nan allegations against him, and galore whitethorn person an sentiment astir him," he added. "This is existent successful each high-publicity case."

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Of nan imaginable New York jurors, galore will astir apt clasp opinions of Diddy and nan sex trafficking allegations against him.

"Honestly, astir of them probably do have an opinion, but that doesn’t mean they can’t beryllium fair," Levin emphasized. "New Yorkers are famously skeptical and media-savvy. What matters isn’t whether a juror has heard of Diddy – it’s whether they can set aside what they’ve heard and measure nan grounds impartially. Judges often punctual jurors that nan courtroom, not nan press, is wherever nan facts get sorted out."

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Sean "Diddy" Combs has been accused of racketeering conspiracy, activity trafficking by force, fraud aliases coercion and transporting for prostitution. (Getty Images)

Selecting nan assemblage is "not necessarily" astir picking nan correct people, but genuinely astir "eliminating nan incorrect jurors."

"Thus, each questions are designed to find those jurors that person bias aliases are incapable to put their individual feelings and beliefs speech and attraction connected conscionable nan evidence," Lovell noted.

"Jurors will beryllium asked really they consciousness astir a manner of activity and drugs, really do they consciousness astir personification who is having activity pinch aggregate partners, person they been a unfortunate of home unit aliases rape, person they had issues pinch constabulary aliases rule enforcement, etcetera," he explained. "They will beryllium told they will spot a very disturbing video of Diddy physically assaulting his girlfriend, and nary matter really disturbing it is, tin they look astatine nan circumstantial charges successful this lawsuit and render a verdict connected nan applicable evidence?"

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Sean "Diddy" Combs' lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, based on for nan rapper's merchandise connected bail pursuing his apprehension connected racketeering and activity trafficking charges. However, nan petition was denied. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

The prosecution and defense will beryllium looking for definite types of group to capable retired nan 12-person assemblage that will determine nan destiny of Diddy.

"The prosecution does not want a Diddy instrumentality nine successful nan assemblage box, aliases jurors who person had antagonistic experiences pinch rule enforcement aliases nan government," Lovell noted. "They besides do not want jurors that presume anyone going to a activity statement has consented to everything that happens."

Diddy's defense is apt looking for "independent-minded jurors who don’t automatically spot authorities institutions, and who are little apt to beryllium swayed by emotionally charged allegations," according to Levin. "They’ll want jurors who understand nan quality betwixt nationalist image and provable criminal conduct."

Sean "Diddy" Combs has pleaded not blameworthy to nan charges against him. (Gareth Cattermole)

The ineligible squad will hone successful connected group who don't "have a antagonistic position of consensual and lavish activity parties," Lovell explained. "They don’t want group who were victims of rape aliases intersexual violence, fathers pinch young aliases teenage daughters."

However, some sides will want to debar "jurors who person an replacement motive to beryllium connected a assemblage – for illustration seeking their 15 minutes of fame aliases successful dream of getting a book deal."

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