This is continuing coverage of United States versus Sean Diddy Cones from the Hidden

Killers podcast and True Crime Today. It wasn't the music. It was not the fame. It wasn't even

the entourage. The sunglasses indoors or the mogul mystique.

What made the federal courtroom in lower Manhattan feel different on May 12th was the silence,

the kind that falls over a room when the stakes are no longer about career damage or headlines.

But instead, are about the rest of your life.

John Diddy Combs seated in a khaki suit with a faint, rehearsed calm,

was staring down a jury that would decide

whether his legacy is built on music and business acumen

or on violence, control, and coercion.

This wasn't TMZ, this wasn't a Twitter thread.

This was federal court, and not the kind where you pay a fine and go home. This is a kind where you lose decades minimum.

We're going to go into everything that took place today in the courtroom of Sean Diddy Combs. Day number one of the federal trial in the comments,

please let me know what you think about what took place in the courtroom today. And be sure to press subscribe if you're new here so you don't miss any of our coverage on this case. We're going to do

rundowns like this for you after every day of court. And we'll have them for you as soon as we possibly can once court is done for the day.

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The courtroom today was packed, but orderly, family in the gallery, journalists pressing

their pens like scalpeles, his children, his mother,

all there, and watching? Did he? Still trying to play the role? Before the judge walked in,

he gave a heart-hand gesture to his daughter, a thumbs-, that classic I'm Still the Man vibe?

But once the judge took the bench and the jury filed in the reality of it hit like a freight train,

12 jurors and six alternates chosen after a grueling vetting process were about to hear

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