Daniel Bates
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first heard Mar 2025
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The Trial: USA · BONUS EPISODE - On the courtsteps for Diddy's grey appearance! · 14 Mar 2025
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The biggest secret in the entertainment industry that really wasn't a secret at all has finally been revealed to the world.
Yeah, no worries.
So Didi was in court for a pretrial hearing, which takes place just over a month before the trial is due to start. And it was to deal with a number of matters that kind of, you know, crop up before these kind of, you know, trials take place, housekeeping, documents and so forth. But the big news was Didi's appearance.
In previous hearings, he's had dark colored hair and, you know, it looked very much like he dyed his hair. But this time, it was a shock of white hair with some gray bits. He was noticeably heavier. And yeah, he seems to have just given up on dying his hair. So Diddy's rocking a new look.
And I'm not sure if he's going to stick with this for the trial, but he looked significantly older, significantly heavier set. So dramatic change in his appearance, you know, with just weeks to go until the trial.
Did he look stressed or did he look... Well, in court, Diddy's a performer. I mean, I've seen him in court a few times now. You know, he comes into court and he smiles at everyone. You know, it's like a light goes on and he's a completely different person. You know, he was waving at one of his sons and daughters who were in the public gallery.
And at the end of the hearing, his mum came in a bit late and he saw her. He blew her a kiss. He sort of put his hand on his heart and she blew a kiss back to him.
You know, he's hugging his lawyers. He's saying hi to people. You know, it's like he's in the club. You know, he's just he's everybody's friend, you know, and it's like, I mean, you know, you could argue that this is a bit of PR on his behalf, but there's no jury there yet. So, I mean, he's he puts on a show every time. And today was no different.
Yeah, I think there's going to be about two weeks of jury selection. And then the question of whether the jury is going to be sequestered came up. I wasn't quite clear as to whether or not, you know, that was actually going to happen. But it looks like we're going to have quite a lengthy jury selection process. I mean, you know, two weeks for a federal case is quite long.
But with a high profile case like this, you know, it sometimes can take that long. I mean, you can expect Diddy to hire jury consultants, you know, to ask extensive questions about You know, feelings towards him, whether or not they know anyone related to him, different locations. You know, it's going to be a long, lengthy process.
And, you know, given the high profile of the case, I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few hiccups as well. But it seems that we're going to get weeks of jury selection before the trial even starts, you know, sometime in mid-May.
Well, again, it wasn't quite clear. I think it was just during voir dire. I mean, I don't think the jury are going to be sequestered for the whole trial, but it's possible it may be for voir dire. So, I mean, it's an unusual move for a judge to do that, if indeed that is what happens. I mean, but I think it reflects the... the extremely, you know, high profile nature of this case.
I mean, I've seen plenty of juries who are anonymous. I remember, you know, multiple Trump cases and, you know, so it's not unusual. But if the jury is indeed sequestered, then that would be quite unusual.
Yeah, like I said, I think it sort of remains to be seen what has actually decided on that. But, you know, it would indeed be unusual.
Yeah, I think right at the end, Mark Agnifilo talked about, you know, voluminous amount of medical records that they'd obtained. And that's something they're going to be working through. And there was also a discussion about the... You know, the recording obtained by CNN of Didi attacking Cassie Ventura, his ex-girlfriend, in 2016 at a hotel.
You know, the judge didn't make a decision as to sort of whether or not that's going to be admitted. But Agnifilo said that the recording was deceptive and that it had been manipulated by CNN. He said that it had been made to look faster than it actually was and it was out of sequence. The prosecution described it as a critical piece of evidence.
Both sides said that they're going to try and work things out as to whether or not it's admitted. But, I mean, you know, what's clear is that it's a much disputed piece of evidence that is central to the case. Prosecutors said that they're going to have witnesses testifying about it. You know, we may see Cassie herself give evidence. That's not clear yet.
But it seems like there's going to have to be a major ruling from the judge at some point as to whether or not that comes in. The other thing that caught my ear was a mention by the prosecutor of disclosing witnesses' names to the prosecution, sorry, to the defense, which they haven't done yet. And the prosecutor said that these witnesses are understandably terrified of
about the prospect of their name becoming public or being disclosed to the defense. So it seems that those names are going to go over to the defense, but for attorney's eyes only and not for the public at this stage.
Yeah, I mean, I think it's, I don't even know if anything's going to be entered, anything that will be entered onto the docket would be sealed. And attorney's eyes only is a sort of special category that judges can impose to add an extra layer of security to ensure that these things don't leak out.
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