Renato Stabile
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116 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard May 2025
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The biggest secret in the entertainment industry that really wasn't a secret at all.
Thanks a lot for having me. Good to be talking to you.
Yeah, you know, look, it's New York City. So you get a wide range of people. I'm not that surprised these things happen, especially in these really large, high profile jury selections where you're bringing in hundreds of people. You're whittling it down to people really, first and foremost, that can actually sit for 10 weeks. So that's probably the most difficult hurdle to get over.
And then once you get past that, people who say that they can be fair and impartial, but I think the judge needs to get it down to 45 jurors before they start exercising strikes. There's some math behind that that I won't bore you with, but it's based on the number of jurors plus the number of alternates plus the number of strikes that each party is entitled to.
And so that's how you get to the 45. You actually only need 40, but the judge is being conservative and he's going to have a few more.
Yeah. And a case that's this high profile. I mean, look, I think it would be strange if you found jurors that hadn't heard of the case or hadn't heard of Diddy. I'd be a lot more concerned about those people because I have to think, where do you live? You know, you're not part of the world if you don't know about this case and if you don't know about Diddy.
So they couldn't apply a standard where if you know about the case or if you know about Diddy, you can't be a juror. The question is, can you be fair and impartial? Can you listen to the evidence? Can you give Diddy, you know, the presumption of innocence? Can you look at him as he sits there now? And a lot of people can't. But remember, he is entitled to that. He is presumed innocent.
And until the prosecution proves their case beyond a reasonable doubt, he is an innocent man. And you have to find jurors that are going to say, yeah, I look at him that way and I'm going to respect his constitutional rights.
Yeah. So look, obviously, besides Diddy, you have this star studded list of potential witnesses. We've talked about this before. One of the concerns that I think both sides have are these stealth jurors, right? People that will just say anything to get onto the jury and won't be honest with you. And especially when they see that some of these celebrities might be showing up.
look, this is exciting. This might be the most exciting thing that will happen in a lot of jurors lives all year, maybe in 10 years. So, you know, the fact that you have all of those celebrities, it adds to whether or not you think people are trying to game the system just to get onto the jury.
He's obviously a very charismatic person. He has been a celebrity for a very long time. He knows how to ingratiate himself with people. I don't know that it's necessarily a put on. I think that's just how he is. And he's just maybe being himself. Look, he's not obviously supposed to be talking to jurors or engaging with them, but he definitely wants to build rapport.
He wants them to see him as another human being who is in a tough situation. And I think it's fine to make eye contact or to smile to jurors. You can't do it too much. But remember, you also don't want to be laughing too much. And this is something that I tell clients. When you are in that courtroom, and the jury walks in, it's like the curtain goes up on stage. All eyes are on you.
So you have to take it very seriously. And it's OK if something funny happens in court. He's human. We're all human. But I wouldn't want to see him when something not funny is going on in court for him to be joking around with his lawyers. And that, I think, would really do him a disservice if the jurors detect that he's not taking this seriously in any way.
But if you have those light moments, I think that's fine. And I think, look, he should rely on the charisma that has served him well for many, many years.
I think the biggest factor is really the 10 weeks, that that's the thing that people are saying, I would like to be on this jury. I think it would be interesting to be on this jury, but for two weeks, not for 10 weeks. So I think that's why you're seeing a lot of people trying to get out of it.
You know, one thing that was interesting, I saw you had some footage of Mark Agnifola walking into court this morning, and he had that huge white binder. Right. I assume, based on my experience, that in that huge white binder,
is a ton of information on all of these jurors that was probably his jury binder and so what the defense has been doing and probably the prosecution too has been researching these jurors finding out everything they can and over the weekend they're even going to continue to do that and it also gives them an opportunity to sit down with Diddy because listen it's ultimately his life
And he has to be comfortable with the jury that's going to sit in judgment of him. And he should have a say in who they're going to strike on Monday.
I think the ideal juror for Diddy is somebody who is going to hold the prosecution witnesses to a very high and exacting standard. who is going to be looking for discrepancies in their stories, who is going to be saying, if you didn't want to go along with these things, why did you attend these events? Why did you continue to attend these events? Why didn't you walk out the door?
I know some of the testimony is going to be that think people were drugged or things were put in their drinks. But I think also some of it will be voluntary drug use, voluntary alcohol use. And I'm looking for jurors who are going to look at these alleged victims and they're going to say, look. I'm not buying that you were coerced into this.
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