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Who is Cassie Ventura and what is her role in the Sean Combs trial?
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Welcome back to ABC News Live, day two of testimony in the Sean Diddy Combs trial. His ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, taking the stand, revealing never before heard details about days long drug fueled sexual encounters with prostitutes.
Cassie saying if she refused to participate, Combs became violent and that the freak offs became a job where there was no space to do anything else but to recover and just try to feel normal again. Our ABC News legal contributors Brian Buckmeyer and Bernardo Villalona are back with us. We're going to have you all take sides today. Brian, you're the defense. Bernardo, you're the prosecution.
Brian, let's start with you. If you were the defense attorney sitting there hearing all of these details, what are you thinking?
If I'm the defense, I'm actually not that worried, because in a case like this, they've already conceded that there is allegations of domestic abuse and violence. And I'm waiting to see the government make the connection between this is simply a man and a woman, especially a man, because we're hearing the violence from Sean Combs on to Cassie, just brutally abusing her, hating her.
All the things that we said were indefensible, but we're not seeing the connection of was this force used to compel her to go across state lines for trafficking? Or was this simply a man who was a voyager who liked to participate in these sexual escapades that we may not agree with? But in the course of that, he used violence.
So I'm looking to try to slice this with a scalpel rather than come in with a hammer and just kind of pick the case apart little by little.
Bernardo, how do you think the prosecution did today? What are they trying to do here?
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