“The prosecutors already told you about lubricant, and you may know of his love of baby oil. Is that a federal crime? No.""He uses drugs, he is physical... but is that a federal crime? No."“We accept full responsibility for the domestic violence present in this case. However, domestic violence does not equate to sex trafficking.”- Diddy’s Defense Team This is day 1 of Diddy’s trial.
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Monday, opening statements for the Diddy trial. There are no cameras allowed in federal courtrooms, so I know you guys often like to watch live streams of trials that you guys are following, but there's no cameras. So I have two Rotten Mango researchers inside the courthouse with me.
We are all individually witnessing and experiencing everything that's happening during the trial, individually taking notes, and then every single night we'll come home and regroup and try to find all of the things that
that we all saw and felt and noted down because I thought that was the best way because sometimes we notice things that the other person doesn't notice and maybe it's like in our heads. We don't know. So these are all the things that we noted on Monday. If you guys are just here for the actual trial and like maybe some of the transcript stuff, Skip ahead.
This is like the energy inside the courtroom. So Monday morning we sit down. The press is sitting on the right side again. So we are behind diagonal Diddy. So like we can see the side profile of his face and the back of his head mainly. So we're sitting there and I feel like the minute The minute that the defense attorneys start walking into the courtroom, it's already so tense.
The energy, everybody expected it to be a lot more tense on Monday because it's the last day of jury selection. They're finalizing a jury. They're going to start opening statements. Two witnesses are going to come to the stand to testify. There's going to be cross examinations.
It's going to be tense, but it was it was really tense Brian Steele walks in holding Tenney's bag as well as his own bag and I feel like the minute that Brian walked in we were all taking notes because We have discovered this new thing at Rottenmingo Which is the fact that we can kind of predict what's about to happen in court next based off of Brian Steele's eyeglasses There's something about this man's reading glasses.
You look at his reading glasses if they are on his nose bridge or I feel like whatever is coming next in court is about to be very serious. Or he's reading something. But usually, something very serious is going to happen. When they're off, I feel like he's relaxed. I feel like it's about to be lunch. That's the feeling that we all gathered and they're just staying on his nose.
They're not coming off. He's like buried inside of his papers first thing in the morning. Usually he likes to do his little posing, not posing, but he likes to do his little stance while he greets people. But he's just like buried into the papers. Mark, the lead defense attorney, also stressed.
I feel like he had a very approachable, almost like a teddy bearish quality that just keeps declining rapidly day by day. And we don't really know what's going on, but like seemingly they're very stressed. The whole defense team, they just look like they're cramming for some sort of finals on the other side of the courtroom.
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