5.9.25 CRU with Nancy Grace: Can Justice Survive Celebrity? Inside the Diddy Trial
Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum
iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline
4.4 • 696 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Nancy Grace and Sheryl McCollum dissect the legal complexities and cultural reverberations of the Sean "Diddy" Combs case.
They discuss how media narratives, witness credibility, and the magnetic pull of celebrity can influence a jury’s perception—regardless of the facts. They unpack how victim stories are often distorted or dismissed and explore the deeply personal, often painful reasons many survivors stay silent for years before finding the strength to speak out
Show Notes:
- (0:00) Welcome! Nancy and Sheryl introduce this week’s crime roundup
- (0:30) Happy Mother’s day weekend
- (3:00) Sean Combs…a.k.a Diddy has plead not guilty
- (6:00) Biggest obstacles for Diddy
- (7:30) Diddy's charges and public perception
- (8:00) Charisma in the courtroom
- (10:00) Defense tactics and likeability bias
- (13:00) Questioning victims - why didn’t they speak sooner?
- (15:00) Cassie Ventura’s video
- (19:00) Defining consent and power imbalances
- (20:00) Voir Dire - jury selection strategies explained
- (22:00) Open vs. silent strikes
- (22:30) Prediction of how long Diddy trial will last
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Nancy Grace is an outspoken, tireless advocate for victims’ rights and one of television's most respected legal analysts. Nancy Grace had a perfect conviction record during her decade as a prosecutor. She is the founder and publisher of CrimeOnline.com, a crime- fighting digital platform that investigates breaking crime news, spreads awareness of missing people and shines a light on cold cases.
In addition, Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, a daily show hosted by Grace, airs on SIRIUS XM’s Triumph Channel 111 and is downloadable as a podcast on all audio platforms - https://www.crimeonline.com/
Connect with Nancy:
X: @nancygrace
Instagram: @thenancygrace
Facebook: @nancygrace
Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI, a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. She is the co-author of the textbook., Cold Case: Pathways to Justice.
Connect with Sheryl:
Email: [email protected]
Facebook: @sheryl.mccollum
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an I Heart podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | Welcome to the Crime Roundup. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm Cheryl McCallum, and I'm joined this morning with the beautiful, talented, brilliant, Nancy Grace. |
| 0:24.7 | Okay, A, that wasn't your normal wind up. |
| 0:27.7 | You have no energy unlike that, because when the other person has no energy, I can pounce upon them, |
| 0:33.4 | and I can shred them much more easily when they don't fight back. |
| 0:36.8 | But also, this is a surprise, everyone, because unlike every other single time ever we have done Crime Roundup, |
| 0:45.3 | Cheryl has not discussed a topic head of time. |
| 0:47.5 | So this is a surprise, which I don't like. |
| 0:50.5 | It is a surprise. |
| 0:51.8 | It is a big surprise. |
| 0:53.8 | Well, first of all, happy Mother's Day weekend. |
| 0:57.1 | I can't believe it. |
| 0:58.5 | I know. |
| 0:59.6 | Let me guess what John David and Lucy got you. |
| 1:03.0 | Tickets to the Luigi Mangione musical. |
| 1:06.5 | Well, not yet, surprisingly. |
| 1:08.1 | They don't know that much about him. |
| 1:10.4 | I don't know. |
| 1:10.9 | Actually, if I said his name, they would know about it because it kept coming up on TikTok. |
| 1:17.6 | I'm sorry to say. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, a musical. |
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