Peter Charalambous
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89 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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She cut herself after Combs threw her on the bed on this bed frame. And the jury actually saw photos of this. There are multiple instances here where the prosecutors have not only elicited testimony about this alleged abuse, but have shown the jury photos of the damage. In this case, and here, I'll just pull it up on our end.
It looks a little chaotic, but here, this is government exhibit B247A. This came in during Ventura's testimony. She described this same incident that we heard about on Wednesday. And the jury saw what is one of the more graphic pieces of evidence in this case. You can see kind of the gash on her eyebrow.
And the testimony on Wednesday talked about how bloody this was, how Combs got frustrated and freaked out, if anything, after he realized how bloody he had caused by throwing Ventura into this bed frame.
And for the jury, again, to a jury that might be skeptical of victim testimony in a sex trafficking case, stuff like this, where you not only have one victim testifying about this, but you also have another person corroborating that account, and you have evidence that documents what exactly is being talked about, that can go a long way for the prosecution.
Yeah, I think this is super fascinating, because trials in the United States have been consistent for, at this point, centuries. But one area where things have changed pretty rapidly over the last 20 years is how technology has made its way into the courtroom. I used to be a paralegal before I was a journalist, and I dealt with this firsthand.
I was doing much more boring trials about white-collar criminals. But that same technology applied. I think I even worked on a trial that is in the same courtroom where the Combs case is currently happening. It's magnificent. It's this large room. You've been there plenty of times. tall ceilings, it's got this sweeping view of Midtown rising up from Chinatown, and it's speckled with technology.
There are computer screens in front of every chair for the defense table and the prosecution table. The witness box has a screen. The jury each has a screen in front of them. The gallery also has at least one screen to see what's being presented to the jury. Basically, as they're kind of hearing this evidence being described by the witnesses, the jury gets to see this immediately in front of them.
They get to see it with their own eyes. And when it comes actually to the point of deliberations, they get to see this all over again. The jury will be sent into the deliberations room with a binder full of evidence or a laptop full of every single exhibit that's been admitted over the course of the trial.
Evidence is at the ready for them and a good prosecutor can really enhance their direct examination using this evidence at times to kind of give their witness more credibility, to preempt a line of attack that the defense may make to cast doubt on that testimony.
It's one area, particularly with this case, where there is so much evidence, where there are tons of photos and text messages and emails, where the prosecution kind of has a leg up here because they can build off this testimony with all of this material.
Yeah, that's an interesting point, especially with a trial like this one where we're talking about testimony and witnesses who might be victims of an alleged crime. So in this case, there are certain pieces of evidence that only the jury is seeing that aren't being publicly released, aren't being shown to the jury.
So they have those screens in front of each of the computers in front of the jury to make sure that they can see that without kind of risking unnecessary harm. For example, showing a photo of a victim who their image really serves no public interest basically in being released.
There's a weird kind of technological dance that happens every time, a piece of evidence put in by the prosecution of the defense here, where basically the judge has to sign off before the jury can see anything. And the defense has an opportunity to object. So basically, the evidence is slowly spread out throughout the courtroom. First, it's only on the screens for the judge and for the attorneys.
Then the witness gets to see it so they can identify it. And then only when it's been entered into evidence can the jury actually see it. And at that point can usually the members of the gallery see it.
So if there's a mess up there, if the jury sees a piece of evidence that they shouldn't be seeing, that didn't get entered into evidence, that could be really prejudicial, that could become the grounds for a mistrial. So it's kind of like a high stakes technology thing that happens every single time something's entered into evidence.
Yeah, there's a few categories here. And at this point, I think we're up to about more than 250 government exhibits, about 30 or 40 defense exhibits. And some of them are minor things like face cards for each of the witnesses so that when it comes time to do a closing statement, they can kind of build out a clever chart that shows their allegation of what is a criminal enterprise.
But broadly speaking, I would say breaks down into a few categories. There are photos taken from the raids of Sean Combs' property. So we've already seen the photos taken from the raid of his Miami home and the raid of his hotel room when he was in New York to surrender. And during those raids, investigators found illegal drugs.
They found substances that were allegedly used for freak offs like baby oil and Astroglide. Guns, drugs.
Basically everything you could want to run a criminal enterprise, allegedly. They alleged that they, over the course of these raids, found thousands of bottles of baby oil. The jury saw upper and lower receivers for assault weapons, which had their serial numbers defaced. They saw a loaded handgun that was found in a suitcase in Combs Miami home.
I think we're also going to hear a bit more about this when we learn about the raid done on his Los Angeles home. We haven't seen that material and evidence yet. Certainly, there's been a lot of material about this Kid Cudi firebombing incident. They've seen plenty of photos showing this charred Porsche 911.
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