Stephanie Maurice
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Bad Rap: Diddy Gets Scolded
So this past week, it was probably one of the wildest days we've seen in court. You know, you'll hear random outbursts from people, people saying things aloud or responding to the testimony. They are immediately removed by the court officers because nobody wants the jury to be influenced or there to be any disruptions in court.
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Bad Rap: Diddy Gets Scolded
But what happened this week was there is a woman who is known to us on the media line. She comes in with the public and she typically is in the overflow room. We watched her be led into the main courtroom that day.
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Bad Rap: Diddy Gets Scolded
and we were all seated there they were having some discussions about whether something was going to be admitted and i saw her get up and exit out of her row and i saw her pause i was watching her i saw her pause and then she started yelling about how this wasn't funny how we were laughing at diddy how people were trying to tarnish the legacy of a black man
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There were a lot of expletives thrown in there. And the court security officers immediately went over. The judge said, get her out of here now. They went over. She even dared one of them to pull their weapon. And they were very gentle with this woman. They escorted her out. And I saw her later that afternoon. And she was ready to be in the overflow room the next day.
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People are really into this trial. They want to be a part of it. They want to be in the room. But obviously, you can't have those kinds of outbursts. And You've seen it outside of the courthouse. We've had to call NYPD. We've had to call the U.S. Marshals over.
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Bad Rap: Diddy Gets Scolded
There is a cast of characters that are there between the bloggers, the YouTube personalities, just everyday New York people that are like, what's happening? Diddy's in there and then they stop and everybody wants to wait for the kids to come out and the mom to come out and catch them going into the sprinter. It is a spectacle on a daily basis.
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Bad Rap: Diddy Gets Scolded
So we have been quite surprised to see how expressive some of the jurors in particular are. There has been particular testimony that I have seen jurors smirk at, laugh at, roll their eyes at. There are jurors that are not hiding their feelings on their faces. And we're also seeing during sidebars, jurors whispering behind notebooks, jurors talking, jurors laughing.
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Bad Rap: Diddy Gets Scolded
And while we obviously don't know what they're talking about, it's just interesting to see them speaking during the court proceedings when the judge is off with the defense and the prosecution in a sidebar. But we are absolutely seeing some of these jurors express one way or another how they're feeling about certain testimony. For instance, when Mia in particular was testifying,
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there seemed to be a lot of jurors that were rolling their eyes and laughing at things that some would deem very serious. And while we can't read in it too much, you know, it's those expressive moments where, you know, as journalists, we're wondering, what are they thinking? Which way are they leaning? Obviously, we don't know. But we'll know when there's a verdict, which way the jury's leaning.
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Bad Rap: Diddy Gets Scolded
Well, I'm interested to see what else Jane is going to say. I mean, Jane has just finally taken the stand. She's victim to. We knew very little bit about her going into it. But she's expected to be on the stand through next week. They said she has a flight Thursday evening. And they are expecting to have her on the stand until at least through late next week.
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Bad Rap: Diddy Gets Scolded
And we're also wondering, where are some of these people who keep coming up again and again? Damian D. Rock Butler, one of his heads of security, he has come up again and again. Christina Karam, the chief of staff. These are people that. Many witnesses have told us were there that could corroborate events and we have yet to see them on the stand for the government.
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Bad Rap: Diddy Gets Scolded
And so we're wondering where those folks are and if the government is going to call them or are they on the defense's list?
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Bad Rap: Diddy Gets Scolded
I mean, you know, Brian, it's been eight months in the making for us to finally get into that courtroom and see how this case from the government was going to play out. It's fascinating being in the courtroom. It's fascinating to see Diddy take a front seat to his own defense, like literally has a seat at the table.
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You've seen it where he's often passing notes, whispering stuff to his defense attorneys. He's having very expressive reactions to things he disagrees with or at times when his ex-personal assistant said things that were favorable of him. Things about his business acumen, things like that. He's shaking like, yep, yep, that's me.
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Bad Rap: Diddy Gets Scolded
So it's been very interesting to see how active Diddy has been in this trial. I don't think that was something that I was expecting to see so obviously, I would say.
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Bad Rap: Diddy Gets Scolded
So I think when we were hearing about this case for months, the name that was mostly talked about was Little Rod and this explosive lawsuit that he had against Diddy. And there were other celebrities named in it. And there were all of these allegations against Sean Combs. And so I think a lot of people were expecting to see that case on trial. And that's not what we're there for.
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Bad Rap: Diddy Gets Scolded
And I think people are beginning to understand the difference between the civil suits that we were seeing and what's going on with what the federal government is charging Sean Combs with. So seeing this super pared down list of victims,
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Bad Rap: Diddy Gets Scolded
And even down to that, when we see someone who has a civil suit against Diddy like Don Rashard from Danity Kane, when we see her take the stand, we're not hearing about the personal allegations she made against him in her civil suit. We're hearing about her corroborating testimony of acts of violence that she saw Sean Combs commit against Cassie, allegedly.
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We're hearing about alleged threats that he made towards her to keep quiet about the things that she says she was seeing Combs do to Cassie. And so it's interesting to see where the testimony goes once they get on the stand. It was also interesting to see when Cassie's mother Regina got on the stand.
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Yes, she spoke to some of the bruises and things she had seen on her daughter's body corroborating some of that evidence. But we're hearing explosive testimony and stories that we hadn't heard of.
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For instance, that Cassie's parents took out a $20,000 home equity loan on their house and wired it over to Combs in order to protect their daughter, they say, because he was upset that she had been seeing Kid Cudi, Scott Muscati. So seeing why these witnesses are taking the stand has been just as fascinating as who they're actually choosing to take the stand.
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Bad Rap: Diddy Gets Scolded
Well, I would say on Wednesday, we finally heard from Brianna Bongolin, who's known by the name Bonna. And Bonna was a close friend of Cassie, still is, she testified. And Bonna got on the stand and told about a 2016 incident that she is actually suing Combs for in a civil lawsuit for $10 million.
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Bad Rap: Diddy Gets Scolded
And she got on the stand and talked about how Combs came to Cassie's then apartment one morning and she was on a balcony and he physically picked her up and dangled her on a 17th floor balcony and then proceeded to throw her onto some balcony furniture. We saw for the first time photos of the bruises and her in a neck brace and her with, you know, injury tape on her body.
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Bad Rap: Diddy Gets Scolded
She told us about the injuries she sustained, why she was seeking justice. So we heard that. But then we also heard things from her we hadn't heard before about an incident in Malibu where she says Diddy came up to her and essentially said, you know, I'm the devil. I could kill you.
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And the things that she was terrified about, a story about Combs throwing a knife at Cassie and Cassie throwing one back at him. And it's interesting because as we're hearing this testimony, we can also see Combs' reaction to it, as you know. And so when she was testifying about this knife incident, which was the first time I had heard about it, I looked over and Combs made this gesture like,
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and shook his head no, disagreeing, and then immediately started writing notes and giving those notes over to his defense attorney.
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And we also heard from Eddie Garcia. And Eddie Garcia was a security guard at the Intercontinental when that hotel incident that we've now all seen where Diddy is seen attacking Cassie. And he was the missing link. We kept hearing about this hotel incident. We kept seeing the video. But none of us really knew where they got this video from.
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And Eddie Garcia finally filled in those blanks for us, sharing with us that it was actually his supervisor who said, I'll give it to him for $50,000 when Diddy had his chief of staff, Christina Karam, calling Garcia, coming to the Intercontinental Hotel. finding out his personal cell phone, calling him, looking for this video.
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And we hear this incredible testimony about him going to the west side of LA, meeting with Sean Combs himself, handing over what they claimed was the only copy of this video, and getting $100,000 in cash, how he doled it out amongst three people that were involved. He tells us that Combs kept referring to him as you know, my angel, my angel Eddie.
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And we see it in Sean Combs' phone in evidence as an exhibit that he saved it as my angel Eddie.
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Bad Rap: Diddy Gets Scolded
So the first week, I think the first two rows that were dedicated to Sean Combs' support team were filled. Every mother of his child was there. Sarah Chapman was there. Dana Tran was there. We saw Misa Hilton there. We saw his three sons. We saw his two twin daughters. And we saw his daughter Chance. The only child of his that wasn't here is his toddler child love that he has with Dana Tran.
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So the first week, we saw the entire family. And then as the week went on, you know, things started to trickle off. We know that his daughters had some things going on with high school and prom. But now it's basically Janice Combs has a standing seat in that courtroom. And one day I saw Combs turn to his mother at the end of court and he mouthed to her, see you tomorrow. And she said every day.
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And he mouthed back to her every day. Oftentimes he's turning around at the beginning of court, checking to see if they're there yet. And there are moments where he turns around and he doesn't have their intention. They might be looking down. One time he was looking at his mom and he waited for her to look up to make eye contact.
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And he often does the heart heart with his hands and he'll blow her kisses. And he's one time he said, love you, mama. I think it's really an opportunity for him to connect with his children in these moments. He's often having, you know, brief little conversations with his sons. They're smiling, laughing in these sidebars and breaks and at the end of court.
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Bad Rap: Diddy Gets Scolded
So this is really his connection to his family every day in court.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
But what happened this week was there is a woman who is known to us on the media line. She comes in with the public and she typically is in the overflow room. We watched her be led into the main courtroom that day. Und wir waren alle dort. Sie hatten einige Diskussionen darüber, ob etwas anerkannt werden würde. Und ich sah sie aufsteigen und aus ihrer Reihe aussteigen. Und ich sah sie pausieren.
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The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
Ich habe sie gesehen. Ich sah sie pausieren. Und dann hat sie angefangen zu weinen. über das, wie das nicht lustig war, wie wir an Diddy lachen, wie die Leute versucht haben, das Legitimum eines schwarzen Mannes zu zerstören. Es gab viele Explosionen, und die Sicherheitsanwälte sind sofort übergegangen. Der Gericht hat gesagt, sie sollen jetzt weg. Sie sind übergegangen.
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Sie hat sogar einen von ihnen gedauert, um ihre Waffe zu holen. Und sie waren sehr leise mit dieser Frau. Sie haben sie ausgesucht. Und ich habe sie später in der Nachmittagszeit gesehen. Und sie war bereit, in der Überflussrunde am nächsten Tag zu sein. Die Leute sind wirklich in diesem Trial. Sie wollen Teil davon sein. Sie wollen in der Ruhe sein.
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The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
Aber offensichtlich kann man solche Art von Ausbrüchen nicht haben. Und Sie haben es gesehen.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
Wir mussten NYPD nennen. Wir mussten die US-Marschalls nennen. Es gibt eine Kaste von Charakteren, die zwischen den Bloggerinnen, den YouTube-Personalitäten sind. Just everyday New York people that are like, what's happening? Diddy's in there? And then they stop and everybody wants to wait for the kids to come out and the mom to come out and catch them going into the sprinter.
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The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
Ich bin sehr überrascht, wie exklusiv einige der Juristen sind. Es gibt bestimmte Testimonien, bei denen Juristen lachen, lachen, ihre Augen öffnen. Es gibt Juristen, die ihre Gefühle nicht auf ihren Füßen verstecken. And we're also seeing during sidebars jurors whispering behind notebooks, jurors talking, jurors laughing.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
And while we obviously don't know what they're talking about, it's just interesting to see them speaking during the court proceedings when the judge is off with the defense and the prosecution in a sidebar. But we are absolutely seeing some of these jurors express one way or another wie sie sich über bestimmte Testimonien fühlen.
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Zum Beispiel, als Mia besonders testifizierte, gab es viele Juristen, die ihre Augen schlürfen und lachen, Dinge, die man sehr ernst nehmen würde. Und obwohl wir es nicht so viel lesen können, weißt du, es sind diese expressiven Momente, wo... So as we sit here now, what questions do you have about this case? Well, I'm interested to see what else Jane is going to say.
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The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
I mean, Jane has just finally taken the stand. She's victim to. We knew very little bit about her going into it, but she's expected to be on the stand through next week. They said she has a flight Thursday evening. And they are expecting to have her on the stand until at least through late next week. And we're also wondering, where are some of these people who keep coming up again and again?
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
Damien D. Rock Butler, one of his heads of security. He has come up again and again. Christina Karam, the chief of staff. These are people that. Viele Anwesende haben uns gesagt, dass wir da sind, die Events korroberieren könnten. Und wir haben sie noch nicht auf dem Stand für die Regierung gesehen.
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Und wir fragen uns, wo diese Leute sind und ob die Regierung sie nennen wird oder ob sie auf der Defensivliste sind.
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Natürlich, ich bin froh, hier zu sein.
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The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
Ich meine, du weißt, Brian, es sind acht Monate in der Mitte, um endlich in das Gericht zu kommen und zu sehen, wie dieses Gesetz von der Regierung aussehen wird. It's fascinating being in the courtroom. It's fascinating to see, did he take a front seat to his own defense? Like literally has a seat at the table.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
You've seen it where he's often passing notes, whispering stuff to his defense attorneys. He's having very expressive reactions to things he disagrees with or at times when his ex-personal assistant said things that were offensive. favorable of him. Things about his business acumen, things like that. He's shaking like, yep, yep, that's me.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
So it's been very interesting to see how active Diddy has been in this trial. I don't think that was something that I was expecting to see so obviously, I would say.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
So I think when we were hearing about this case for months, the name that was mostly talked about was Little Rod and this explosive lawsuit that he had against Diddy. And there were other celebrities named in it and there were all of these allegations against Sean Combs. Ich denke, viele Leute erwarteten, dass wir diesen Fall im Trial sehen würden. Das ist nicht, wofür wir da sind.
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Ich denke, die Leute verstehen jetzt die Unterschiede zwischen den Zivilsuits, die wir gesehen haben, und dem, was der federalistische Regierung mit Sean Combs bezahlt hat. Das Super-Pairdown-Liste der Gefangenen Und sogar darunter, wenn wir jemanden sehen, der einen Zivilsuit gegen Don Rashard von Danity Kane hat, wenn wir sie sehen, nehmen wir den Stand.
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The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
Wir hören nicht über die persönlichen Angelegenheiten, die sie gegen ihn in ihrem Zivilsuit gemacht hat. Wir hören über ihr korroboriertes Testimonial von Taten von Gewalt, die sie sah, Sean Combs gegen Cassie verurteilt hat. Wir hören über verurteilte Threaten, die er gegen sie gemacht hat, um sie zu halten, um die Dinge zu halten, die sie sagt, dass sie Combs wegen Cassie gesehen hat.
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The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
Es ist also interessant zu sehen, wo das Testimony geht, wenn sie auf den Stand kommen. Es war auch interessant zu sehen, als Cassies Mutter Regina auf den Stand kam. Ja, sie sprach zu einigen von den Schmerzen und Dingen, die sie auf ihr Vaters Körper gesehen hatte, korroborieren einige dieser Beweise. Aber wir hören explosiven Testimony und Geschichten, die wir noch nicht gehört haben.
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For instance, that Cassie's parents took out a $20,000 home equity loan on their house and wired it over to Combs in order to protect their daughter, they say, because he was upset that she had been seeing Kid Cudi, Scott Muscati. So seeing why these witnesses are taking the stand has been just as fascinating as who they're actually choosing to take the stand.
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The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
Nun, ich würde sagen, am Montag hörten wir endlich von Briana Bongolin, die von dem Namen Bonna bekannt ist. Und Bonna war ein kurzer Freund von Cassie, er ist es immer noch, sie hat getestet. Und Bonna stand auf dem Stand und sagte über ein 2016-Inzidenz, dass sie tatsächlich
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The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
suing combs for in a civil lawsuit for 10 million dollars and she got on the stand and talked about how combs came to cassie's then apartment one morning and she was on a balcony and he physically picked her up and dangled her on a 17th floor balcony and then proceeded to throw her onto some balcony furniture we saw for the first time photos of the bruises and her in a neck brace and her with you know
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The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
Injury tape on her body. She told us about the injuries she sustained, why she was seeking justice. So we heard that. But then we also heard things from her we hadn't heard before about an incident in Malibu, where she says Diddy came up to her and essentially said, you know, I'm the devil. I could kill you.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
And the things that she was terrified about, a story about Combs throwing a knife at Cassie and Cassie throwing one back at him. And it's interesting because as we're hearing this testimony, we can also see Combs' reaction to it, as you know. And so when she was testifying about this knife incident, which was the first time I had heard about it, I looked over and Combs made this gesture like,
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The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
Und er schlug seine Hände, nein, verabschiedet und dann sofort angefangen, Noten zu schreiben und diese Noten zu seinem Verteidigungsantrag zu geben. Richtig.
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The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
Und Eddie Garcia war ein Sicherheitswirt bei Intercontinental, als das Hotel-Inzidenz, das wir jetzt alle gesehen haben, wo Diddy Cassie besiegt hat. Und er war der vermissene Link. Wir haben über dieses Hotel-Inzidenz gehört, wir haben das Video gesehen, aber niemand von uns wusste wirklich, woher sie dieses Video bekommen haben.
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The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
Und Eddie Garcia hat endlich diese Blanken für uns eingefüllt, mit uns zu teilen, dass es tatsächlich sein Supervisor war, der sagte, ich gebe es ihm für 50.000 Dollar, als Diddy seinen Chefstaff, Christina Karam, calling Garcia, zu der interkontinentalen finding out his personal cell phone, calling him, looking for this video.
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The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
And we hear this incredible testimony about him going to the west side of LA, meeting with Sean Combs himself, handing over what they claimed was the only copy of this video. und 100.000 Dollar in Geld bekommen, wie er es zwischen drei Personen, die involviert waren, ausgedrückt hat. Er erzählt uns, dass Combs ihn immer noch als, weißt du, mein Engel, mein Engel Eddie bezeichnet hat.
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The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
Und wir sehen es in Sean Combs Handy, in der Beweise, als ein Ausdruck, dass er es als mein Engel Eddie gesichert hat.
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The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
So the first week, I think the first two rows that were dedicated to Sean Combs support team were filled. Every mother of his child was there. Sarah Chapman was there. Dana Tran was there. We saw Misa Hilton there. We saw his three sons. We saw his two twin daughters and we saw his daughter Chance. The only child of his that wasn't here is his toddler child love that he has with Dana Tran.
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The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
So the first week we saw the entire family. And then as the week went on, you know, things started to trickle off. We know that his daughters had some things going on with high school and prom. But now it's basically Janice Combs has a standing seat in that courtroom. And one day I saw Combs turn to his mother at the end of court and he mouthed to her, see you tomorrow. And she said every day.
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The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
Und er schlägt sie jeden Tag zurück. Oft ist er am Anfang des Gerichts, um zu schauen, ob sie noch da sind. Und es gibt Momente, in denen er sich umdreht und er hat keine Intention, sie könnten nach unten schauen. Eines Tages sah er seine Mutter und er wartete auf sie, um aufzusehen, um Augenkontakt zu machen. Und er macht oft das Herz mit seinen Händen und er schlägt ihre Küsse.
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Und er hat einmal gesagt, ich liebe dich Mama. Ich denke, es ist wirklich eine Möglichkeit für ihn, mit seinen Kindern in diesen Momenten zu verbinden. Er hat oft, weißt du, kurze kleine Gespräche mit seinen Söhnen. Sie lachen, lachen in diesen Sidebars und Brecken und am Ende des Gerichts. Also ist das wirklich seine Verbindung zu seiner Familie jeden Tag im Gericht.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
The Trial: Diddy Gets Scolded
So, this past week, it was probably one of the wildest days we've seen in court. You know, you'll hear random outbursts from people, people saying things aloud or responding to the testimony. They are immediately removed by the court officers because nobody wants the jury to be influenced or there to be any disruptions in court.