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Diddy juror dismissed by judge over inconsistencies about residence, will be replaced
- Judge Arun Subramanian dismissed a juror from Sean Combs' sex trafficking trial on Monday due to conflicting residency answers.
- The dismissal followed questions about whether the juror lived primarily in New York or New Jersey, which could affect jury eligibility.
- The defense protested the removal, arguing it would harm jury diversity by replacing the Black juror with a white alternate.
- Judge Subramanian said leaving the juror could threaten judicial integrity and found the conflicting answers suggest he might have had a specific agenda.
- The replaced juror was substituted by a 57-year-old white male from Westchester County while prosecutors near the end of their presentation.
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Juror in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial dismissed by judge amid questions over residency
A judge dismissed a juror in the sex trafficking trial of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs yesterday after concluding that his conflicting answers about where he lives might indicate he had an agenda or wanted to stay on the jury for a purpose.
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NY Daily NewsJuror dismissed from Diddy’s NYC sex trafficking trial for discrepancies about where he lived
The Manhattan judge presiding over Sean “Diddy” Combs’s sex trafficking trial dismissed a man from the jury Monday for a “lack of candor.”
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A judge dismissed a juror in the sex trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs on Monday after concluding that his conflicting answers about where he lives might indicate he had an agenda or wanted to stay on the jury for a purpose. Judge Arun Subramanian made the ruling after rejecting arguments by Combs’ attorneys that it would disrupt the diversity of the jury to replace the Black man with a white juror. Subramanian had first announced late Fri…
One month has already been the trial of Sean Combs—the singer also known as Puff Daddy or Diddy—turned into the center of media attention and conversation in the United States. The rapper and entrepreneur faces tens of years in jail for five counts of sex trafficking, illegal association and transportation to practice prostitution. After the arduous selection of the jury, which lasted a week, there are already four others in trial as such, with …
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