Bad Boy? Opening Arguments in the Diddy Trial
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🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Amazon offers employees up to £8,000 for education and training, like Juliet. |
| 0:07.0 | She's now a trained technician. |
| 0:10.0 | And to her, the sound of machinery in need of repair, reminds her of how far she's come. |
| 0:18.0 | In two years, she's landed her dream job, providing her with valuable skills. |
| 0:24.2 | That's up to £8,000 for education and training at Amazon. Eligibility conditions apply. |
| 0:30.8 | So here we are day one of the federal racketeering, sex trafficking and prostitution trial |
| 0:36.5 | against rap mogul Sean Diddy Combs. |
| 0:40.0 | This is Laura Coates, CNN anchor and chief legal analysts and former federal prosecutor. |
| 0:45.3 | I focused on sex crimes and violent activity. |
| 0:48.5 | And today, I watch it all come together in a Lower Manhattan courtroom where Sean Diddy Combs is sitting trial for five |
| 0:57.0 | felony charges. I would bring you inside the courtroom and show you exactly what I saw and help you |
| 1:04.7 | understand what we will see next. From CNN, I'm Laura Coates, and this is trial by jury. |
| 1:11.6 | Sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and the obstruction of justice. |
| 1:20.6 | What prosecutors have done here is alleged that Sean Combs was at the head of a criminal enterprise that committed multiple crimes that were connected to one another. |
| 1:28.3 | If convicted, Sean Combs could spend the rest of his life in prison. |
| 1:37.3 | I was sitting in that courtroom watching everything unfold. |
| 1:41.3 | Watching when Diddy walked in, gray-haired to match the gray wardrobe that he had |
| 1:47.7 | on, 14 members of his family inside of that room, including his children, his mother, sitting, |
| 1:55.6 | and one point moving her seat to sit directly behind her son in the event that he would turn around to look at her. |
| 2:03.6 | And he did at times, mouthing, I love you, blowing a kiss to his children. And at one point, |
| 2:09.7 | mouthing, I'm sorry, to his mother. Finally, we know what the prosecution will argue and the |
| 2:15.9 | defense. The prosecution is saying, look, |
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