Court is adjourned for the day due to a sick juror
Court is adjourned for the day because of the sick juror.
The trial will resume Friday following Thursday's Juneteenth holiday.
The hip-hop mogul is charged with sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.
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This is week six of testimony in the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs.
The highly anticipated trial of hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs has reached an end.
The jury found Sean Combs not guilty of racketeering conspiracy, the most serious charge.
The jury found Combs guilty of transportation to engage in prostitution (in connection with his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura) and guilty of transportation to engage in prostitution (in connection with his ex-girlfriend who testified under the pseudonym "Jane").
He was found not guilty of both charges of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion in connection with Ventura and "Jane."
Combs was accused of being the ringleader of an alleged enterprise that "abused, threatened and coerced women" into prolonged, drug-fueled sexual orgies with male prostitutes, which he called "freak-offs," and then threatened them into silence. Combs has said that all of the sex was consensual and that while his relationships sometimes involved domestic violence, he wasn't engaged in trafficking.
Combs' lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, said Combs was simply part of the swinger lifestyle and that he "vehemently denies the accusations made by the SDNY."
Court is adjourned for the day because of the sick juror.
The trial will resume Friday following Thursday's Juneteenth holiday.
“We are going to make some further inquiries to address the juror situation,” Judge Subramanian said after the parties convened privately at the bench.
In the meantime, the judge is hearing defense objections to some pieces of evidence.
“We have a sick juror,” Judge Arun Subramanian announced after he took the bench Wednesday.
The juror has “vertigo symptoms,” the judge said. “I don’t think there’s any way for us to proceed today.”
The parties are discussing the issue in a sidebar.
Judge Arun Subramanian closed the courtroom to discuss a potential issue with one of the jurors. He did not retake the bench so the issue for now remains unresolved, at least publicly.