Dwell updates: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial continues after Cassie Ventura’s testimony

Former Danity Kane musical group member Daybreak Richard is continuous her testimony in the present day within the felony federal trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs, and her testimony might be “extremely impactful,” in keeping with trial lawyer Andrew Lewis, who isn’t affiliated with the case.

Richard testified Friday that she noticed Combs assault Ventura in 2009. The subsequent day, Combs advised her and one other girl current throughout the incident that it was of their “finest curiosity if we didn’t say something” and “the place he comes from, individuals go lacking in the event that they speak,” Richard testified.

That testimony, Lewis mentioned, is “impactful” after Combs’ former girlfriend and considered one of his accusers, Cassie Ventura, “gave very, very compelling testimony and also you noticed how emotional it was at instances. It was very detailed and albeit very graphic.”

“However then see textual content messages the place the protection is countering saying, ‘However wait, you appeared to take pleasure in this, you have been in on this,’ however that’s not the case whenever you see what these different ladies have testified to, they’re supporting Cassie’s model of this,” Lewis added.

The prosecution nonetheless has work to do within the coming weeks.

“There’s a really fantastic line right here between consensual sexual exercise after which coercion, manipulation, threats and finally, the felony enterprise that the prosecution on this case alleges that Sean Combs was part of,” Lewis mentioned. “What they’re attempting to do is present, look, this isn’t an remoted incident” and that “many individuals (have been) concerned on the urging of Mr. Combs all in an effort to fulfill his personal sexual fantasies, manipulate younger ladies, power ladies to a big diploma – even psychologically – to do issues that they in any other case by no means would’ve carried out.”