Renato Stabile
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard May 2025
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So look, this case and most high profile cases like this, you are going to get so much more information about these people than you typically do. So just to break it down for you, in a typical federal criminal case, jury selection is one day. Everything you're going to learn, you learn in one day, maybe two days. This case is very, very different.
And most high profile cases like this are very different because everybody knows Diddy. Most of the people will have heard about this case. And so the judge is giving them two weeks to pick this jury. And there's going to be a lengthy written questionnaire given out. We haven't seen the questionnaire because I looked at the docket they have until April 11th to submit a joint questionnaire.
So we're going to see that just a few days from now. And then we'll be able to see what the questions are going to be. As a jury consultant, I love a written questionnaire. You don't get it all the time. You do get it in these high profile cases, but I love it because people are more honest.
So you're going to get, I think, a lot of honest answers in the written questionnaire, and you're going to have at least a week to go over those. And what's going to be happening in that week is that the lawyers, probably on both sides, are going to be investigating the potential jurors.
You have to. It's really, I mean, my view is it's malpractice if you don't do it. Because you have to know what these folks are posting on social media. Maybe they've already posted about this case. Maybe they've posted about other high profile criminal cases and expressed their opinions.
It's everything that you can do legally. So, I mean, nobody's nobody's going to set up a dummy profile and friend people on Facebook or Instagram or anything like that. Nobody does that. But whatever is out there publicly, you're going to look at.
I mean, there are all kinds of tools that you can use to scrape people's current social media, to get their prior social media, stuff that used to be on the internet that now may have been taken down. You want to look at their work history, their LinkedIn. You want to look to see if they have any financial issues. So you'll see tax liens, licenses. You can see voter registration.
I don't know how prominently that will feature in a case like this. Things will break down over party lines, you know, Democrat, Republican, ultra liberal, ultra conservative. But those are things that you're looking for. You know, have they donated to political candidates? That's all publicly available. Have they donated to PACs? All publicly available.
So those are all of the things that you're going to be looking for to put together. And it's incredible because they're going to be hundreds of jurors here, but you're going to put together a mini dossier on every single person.
And you're going to rank them. Do you want this person? Do you not want this person? And of course, there are some people who are going to write in their questionnaire, he's guilty. For sure, that's going to happen. And they'll be struck for cause.
We call them stealth jurors. It is very, very tricky to figure out who is giving you honest answers and who is giving you answers that they think will get them onto the jury. Because it's not just that it's high profile and Diddy's gonna be in the room and people want proximity to celebrities. And by the way, interestingly, that's gonna be part of the defense, right?
Part of the defense is that people went along with these things You can agree or disagree, but they're going to say people went along with these things because they wanted proximity to him. They wanted proximity to maybe other celebrities. Maybe they were getting paid. People do like to be around celebrities and it doesn't end when you get into a courtroom.
So for sure, I think there are people who are going to try and give the right answers to get onto the jury. A, because it's just really interesting. But B, you know, maybe people want to write a book. Maybe people want to go on TV afterwards and talk about their experiences.
Of course, of course, you get sworn in and you're told by the judge that you have to give honest answers and you actually stand up and take an oath. as a juror in court to give honest answers. And so, you know, I'll give you an example. This happened in the Glenn Maxwell case in one of the jurors forgot that he had been the victim of some sort of sexual assault.
And the question was asked on the questionnaire and he answered no or left it blank. And, you know, there was a whole big issue after that case about, you know, did he lie or did he forget? And the judge held a hearing. And the judge made a credibility finding that he forgot and so decided that he didn't do anything deceptive.
But that's another reason why you have to look at people's social media to make sure that, you know, they're not coming into court and telling you, yeah, I can I can totally be fair and impartial to Mr. Combs. And yet, you know, you'll see on their social media, they're posting articles or saying this guy is so guilty or something like that.
yeah nobody wants it i mean the defense certainly doesn't want it but the prosecutors don't want it either they don't want people lying to get on the jury even if even if it helps them even if there's going to be a conviction they don't need that because they don't want to do it all over again so it's really in everybody's interest that everybody gets a fair opportunity to ask whatever questions they want to ask
look over the questionnaires, do whatever background research they're going to do so that this doesn't come up after the fact and really upend for the prosecution side, upend a conviction. And look, the defense, they want him to get acquitted and they want him to get a fair shot here. So nobody wants it.
I don't know that his celebrity is going to help him a lot here. I do think celebrity helps in some cases, but not necessarily here. You know, it's funny. He's kind of a he's a Gen X artist, right? I don't know how popular or known he is with the younger generation. So you could see this thing break out across generational lines.
If I were picking this jury, I would probably skew younger in terms of the demographic I'm looking for. And not because of familiarity or unfamiliarity with Diddy, but because I think younger people might be more receptive to the fact that people consensually went along with a lot of these things.
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