Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead serious.

After weeks and weeks and weeks of graphic testimony and bombshell witnesses and cross-examinations that shook the courtroom,

it finally arrived.

The jury is finally deliberating in the federal sex trafficking

and racketeering trial of Sean Diddy Combs. But just when we thought we had entered the final

phase this morning, we were thrown a real curveball by mid-morning. One of the jurors, according to the

other jurors, apparently cannot follow the judge's instructions.

Or maybe he won't follow the judge's instructions.

We're working that one out.

And then there was another jury question that came out of deliberations.

And we're going to get to that in just a moment.

But first, let's talk about what those jury

instructions actually were, what the jurors were told before they were told nothing else,

and then were forced to deliberate some kind of a verdict. The judge in the case, Aaron Surramanian,

he kicked off the day, which was a day set aside for jury instructions and then the start of deliberations with the basics in this case and what these jurors have to do.

Sean Diddy Combs is presumed innocent. He started there. The government has the burden of proof.

That presumption only goes away if the jury unanimously agrees that the prosecution

has proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt, not beyond all shadow of a doubt, because that's

kind of impossible in life, isn't it? Just beyond a reasonable doubt.

And the judge explained reasonable doubt as well.

He says, it doesn't mean any doubt.

It just means a doubt that would cause a reasonable person to hesitate.

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