Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ lawyers make final arguments to jurors

The case of sexual trafficking and racketeering against the SEAN hip-hop magnate “Diddy” Combs was “poorly exaggerated,” his lawyer told a panel of 12 New York jurors on Friday.

In his fence, Marc Agnifilo argued for four hours that the government criminalized the combs and the lifestyle of the swingers of his friends in what represented a “false trial”.

His 55 -year -old client pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual traffic, racketeering and transport to engage in prostitution.

“The government has targeted Sean Combs,” said Mr. Agnifilo, leading to an objection – supported later – prosecutors.

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Lawyer Christy Slavik maintained the jurors for five and a half hours in the closing arguments of the accusation on Thursday, telling them that Combs had abused his power and the business empire to the sexual traffic of women and to commit other crimes.

The accusation said that Combs has placed his ex -drugs of drugs and has consumed violence and other means to force them to “monsters” – the name of Combs for events where he looked and filmed while they had sex with male escorts.

While Mrs. Slavik was calm and methodical during a guided digital presentation, Mr. Agnifilo was animated – pace in both directions and frequently making jokes.

He began by attacking the credibility of the ex-girlfriends of Combs who testified against him, Casandra Ventura and the anonymous witness “Jane”.

He called the 11 -year -old relationship with Combs with Ms. Ventura – in which she alleged that he defeated her several times – “one of the great modern love stories”. She was a voluntary participant in their sex life, he said.

“She is a woman who really likes sex – good for her,” said AGINFILO. “She is beautiful, she should.”

He argued that Ms. Ventura was not a victim, because Combs was now in prison and that she settled a civil prosecution against him for physical abuse and sexual coercion for millions of dollars.

“If you were to choose a winner in all of this, it is difficult not to choose Cassie,” he said.

The problems of their relationship constituted domestic violence – and not sexual traffic, said Mr. Agnifilo. He tried to doubt the argument of prosecutors that the rapper used violence to force Ms. Ventura to participate in freight.

The government focused on a 2016 surveillance video of Combs beating Ms. Ventura in the corridor of a Los Angeles hotel, allegedly after trying to leave a monster.

Playing the video again for jurors, Mr. Agnifilo argued that this could not be an example of sex trafficking because Mrs. Ventura seemed to be gesture in their room when a security guard arrived at the scene.

There was “nothing scary in the room,” he said, adding that the monsters were “beautiful evenings” with beautiful music and well decorated rooms.

Mr. Agnifilo also tried to deviate from the testimony of Jane, citing a night when she alleged that the rapper was violent with her before a panoramic.

“His story really makes no sense,” he said.

Combs lawyer attacked the government’s racketeering affair, the allegation that Combs relied on his faithful employees to help him commit sexual traffic and other crimes, then cover them.

There was a “lack of gaping evidence” that Combs and its employees directed a kind of criminal enterprise and that there were co-conspirators, he said.

Former Combs personnel chief Kristina Khorram, whom the prosecutors stressed as a co-conspirator, is a “helpful” woman that everyone loved, Agnifilo told the jury.

A real co-conspirator, he said, would have helped launch the door when Combs tried to enter the house of his ex-girlfriend.

In response to transport to engage in prostitution accusations, Mr. Agnifilo argued that the male escorts the hip-hop magnate and his hired friends were paid “for their time” with the couple, and not for sex.

At the end of his arguments, Combs, carrying a broken white sweater, tightened his lawyer in his arms. His family, including his twin daughters and his mother, was sitting behind him for the second consecutive day.

In a refutation of the defense closure on Friday, the prosecutor Maurene Comey took a more aggressive tone than that of Mrs. Slavik, slamming combat lawyers for suggesting that her ex-girlfriends were lying and that they wanted to engage in pinball after being beaten.

“There is no separation of sex violence,” said Ms. Comey. “They were emotionally, physically and financially.”

She noted the pursuit of Ms. Ventura, asking: “Why risk while speaking during a federal trial?”

The jurors will meet on Monday for the judge’s instructions on how to weigh the case against the hip-hop magnate. Deliberations should start shortly after.

Combs faces life prison for the most serious accusations of racketeering and sex trafficking.

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