Diddy trial live updates: Cassie Ventura to testify as other witness goes 'missing'

A prima witnesser successful the Sean 'Diddy' Combs proceedings is reportedly MIA, throwing the disgraced Bad Boy mogul's enactment trafficking lawsuit into chaos.

Opening statements are acceptable to statesman adjacent week. But federal prosecutors person been near scrambling.

They can't find 1 of the pistillate victims who is cardinal to their case. She does not unrecorded successful New York wherever the Combs' proceedings is being held.

With opening statements successful the proceedings expected to statesman Monday, the enactment to get into the national courthouse successful Manhattan stretches each the mode down the block. One line-sitter was trying to merchantability his spot for $300 aft holding his spot overnight.

Marc Agnifilo walks connected the archetypal time successful the proceedings of Sean 'Diddy' Combs connected enactment trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges

Attorney Brian Steel arrives astatine national tribunal for Combs' enactment trafficking proceedings successful New York City

Judge Arun Subramanian admonsihed Mark Geragos successful tribunal aft helium made comments successful a podcast calling Diddy's prosecutors a 'sick-pack of achromatic women.'

According to prosecutors, Geragos has been advising Diddy's squad during the assemblage enactment process adjacent though helium is not 1 of the rapper's officials attorneys successful the trial.

Subramanian, who is of South Asian descent, called Geragos' comments 'outrageous,' but Geragos' whose girl Teny is simply a subordinate of Diddy's ineligible team, pushed backmost astatine the judge.

'I deliberation erstwhile you've got a Black antheral who's being prosecuted and the lawsuit feels similar he's being targeted, it's a -- it's an observation,' Geragos said.

But the justice wasn not having and changeable back: 'I deliberation this is ridiculous.

'I deliberation referring to the prosecution successful this lawsuit arsenic a six-pack of achromatic women is outrageous. All right. And I recognize what you're saying astir the cases and everything else, but I deliberation this is outrageous and this would not beryllium tolerated successful immoderate tribunal from immoderate lawyer anyplace crossed the nation.'

The last signifier of choosing jurors is known arsenic ‘peremptory’ oregon discretionary strikes: jurors that either broadside does not privation to beryllium connected the jury.

Diddy’s defence gets 10 strikes for the main assemblage of 12 radical and the prosecution wil person six.

Then each broadside gets 3 each for the six alternate jurors.

There are 45 jurors who are qualified for this last stage: nary of them volition beryllium successful tribunal and they are owed to instrumentality connected Monday for opening statements.

Several who were eliminated from the assemblage excavation had seen oregon heard media reports related to the case, including immoderate who said they saw a video successful which Combs was hitting and kicking 1 of his accusers successful a Los Angeles edifice hallway successful 2016.

But 1 antheral who had written connected a questionnaire that the video near him with the 'impression of an aggravated hostile idiosyncratic who is entitled' was not dismissed from the assemblage pool.

After the video aired connected CNN past year, Diddy apologized, saying, 'I instrumentality afloat work for my actions successful that video. I was disgusted past erstwhile I did it. I’m disgusted now.'

In November, prosecutors claimed that the rapper had tried to scope retired to prospective witnesses and power nationalist sentiment from jailhouse successful a bid to impact imaginable jurors up of the trial.

Prosecutors wrote that a reappraisal of recorded jailhouse calls made by Combs showed helium asked household members to scope retired to imaginable victims and witnesses and urged them to make 'narratives' to power the assemblage pool. They said helium besides encouraged selling strategies to sway nationalist opinion.

An lawyer for Combs, Anthony Ricco, said successful tribunal that the prosecution’s portrayal of Combs arsenic 'a lawless idiosyncratic who doesn’t travel instructions' oregon 'an out-of-control idiosyncratic who has to beryllium detained' was inaccurate.

Judge Arun Subramanian denied the bail application, saying grounds showed Combs to beryllium a 'serious hazard of witnesser tampering.'

A heavy large Cassie Ventura is expected to instrumentality the basal successful Diddy's blockbuster enactment trafficking trial.

The rapper's ex-girlfriend and unfortunate of the notoriously convulsive smackdown video that was the catalyst for his arrest, she present holds the cardinal to the astir hotly anticipated personage proceedings successful caller memory.

Rapper Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces a slew of charges related to his alleged intersexual and carnal maltreatment of women.

He was charged with 3 crimes - racketeering, enactment trafficking and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution.

Diddy jurors volition beryllium capable to permission tribunal and spell location aft each time of the trial.

'There are nary plans to sequester the jury, which means you volition spell location each time aft court,' the assemblage questionnaire obtained by the outlet read.

However, jurors were instructed to "avoid each media sum and not to spell connected the Internet oregon societal media with respect to this lawsuit for immoderate purpose."

They are advised to debar discussing the lawsuit with family, friends and colleagues until aft the proceedings is done.

Composed and with his hands successful his pockets, Sean 'Diddy' Combs greeted imaginable jurors who clasp his destiny successful their hands with a flimsy motion arsenic the enactment trafficking proceedings that could nonstop him to situation for beingness began Monday.

And contempt the gravity of the crimes against him, Combs, 55, remained composed and calm, hugging his lawyers arsenic helium came successful and nodding his caput somewhat erstwhile helium faced the jurors with his hands successful his pockets.

Until helium cracked midway done the process aft Diddy's ineligible squad requested a bath break. When the justice asked if they could transportation on, Diddy enactment up his manus and said: 'I'm atrocious your honor, I'm a small tense today.'

The singer, who is expecting her 3rd kid with hubby Alex Fine, was spotted successful New York this week arsenic assemblage enactment successful her ex partner's lawsuit dragged on.

She announced her gestation successful February this year, and is understood to beryllium successful her 3rd trimester.

Unlike different high-profile cases, the rapper's proceedings volition not beryllium televised arsenic it is successful national court.

Electronic media, including cameras, are banned successful the Manhattan tribunal room.

A sketch artist's enactment volition beryllium the lone visuals coming retired of the courtroom.

Jury enactment successful Diddy's proceedings was initially scheduled to past 3 days, ending connected Wednesday.

But justice Arun Subramanian alloted much clip for the process, intially delaying the last steps to Friday and past again to Monday.

Diddy's lawyers had asked for the hold connected Friday, saying that they were acrophobic that much jurors would get acold feet betwixt present and Monday and it would beryllium safer to hold until then.

Prosecutors powerfully opposed this and said it should determination up contiguous due to the fact that it could origin agelong delays connected Monday earlier opening statements.

The justice had leaned towards the delay, saying that if they finished choosing the assemblage connected Monday you got a ‘certainty you’re not going to person to redo assemblage enactment oregon worse’.

He said opening statements would inactive statesman aboriginal connected Monday.