Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now. The jury deliberates a third day in the

Sean Combe sex trafficking trial. Straight out to Drew Nelson for the latest in the courtroom.

Drew, what's happening? Nancy, the jury ending its first full day of deliberations in the federal

sex trafficking and racketeering trial without reaching a final verdict, but they're getting closer.

After more than 12 hours across two days, jurors sent a note to Judge Arun Subramani in late Tuesday,

saying they had reached a decision on four counts but remained deadlocked on the racketeering conspiracy charge.

They wrote that they were unanimous on counts two through five, two sex trafficking

charges, and two counts of transporting women for prostitution. But they said there were, quote,

unpersuadable opinions on both sides about count one. The judge declined to take a partial verdict.

Instead, he instructed the panel to keep going. Both the prosecution and defense supported

Subraman telling them, quote, discuss and weigh your respective opinions dispassionately.

No juror should surrender his or her conscientious beliefs for the purpose of returning a

unanimous verdict. Combs, 55, faces life in prison if convicted of racketeering.

The charge requires jurors to find that he joined a criminal enterprise,

committed at least two qualifying crimes,

and that those crimes affected interstate or foreign commerce.

Earlier in the day, jurors sent multiple notes.

One asked if giving someone drugs when they asked for them counted as distribution,

Subramanian answered by pointing to the jury instructions, which said that, quote,

distribution does not require a sale. The defense objected, but the judge denied their request to revise the wording. Jurors also requested part of Cassie Ventura's testimony, including

the 2016 assault at the

Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles, the 2013 trip to Cannes, and her interactions with

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