Lay today, a judge denied bail for music mogul Sean Diddy Combs. That's after a New York jury this morning acquitted him of sex trafficking and racketeering charges, but found him guilty of prostitution offenses. Combs faced up to life in prison of convicted on all charges. The jury found him not guilty of one count of racketeering conspiracy and two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion,

but convicted him of two counts of using transportation to engage in prostitution.

For more in this case and the verdict, we are joined now by former assistant U.S. Attorney

Moira Penza. Thank you for being with us.

Thanks for having me.

So why was it so difficult to pin the more serious allegations, the sex

trafficking and RICO charges on Combs? What did the jury have to weigh here? Well, in my experience,

both as a prosecutor and in private practice, juries take their responsibilities very seriously.

And these were serious charges, and they're going to

follow the judge's instructions. And so here, what we saw is that the jury just could not find that

the government had proved beyond a reasonable doubt as to those top counts, those charges,

and the elements of those crimes. And so particularly with racketeering, what was

unusual in this case is we didn't see the government call a witness to say, I was part of the

enterprise. This is what it looked like. This is how it worked, which is really a hallmark of most

successful racketeering trials. And then on the sex trafficking piece, I think really what we saw

was the jury grappling with this question of coercion and seemingly being persuaded by the defense

that text messages and the ongoing relationship with Sean Combs indicated that this was not, in fact, coercion.

Well, what was your assessment of the defense strategy here?

Because they rested after just 30 minutes, no witnesses.

The prosecution brought dozens of witnesses, as you know, with weeks of testimony.

What did you make of it?

You know, I think it was very interesting to contrast

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