Overview

• After seven weeks of testimony and Judge Arun Subramanian’s legal instructions, the 12-member jury convened to decide Combs’s guilt on racketeering conspiracy, two counts of sex trafficking and related charges
• Prosecutors presented evidence from 34 witnesses, including video of a 2016 assault, and thousands of phone, financial and other records detailing alleged drug-fueled sexual performances known as “freak-offs”
• Defense lawyers argued the encounters were consensual within a private swinger lifestyle and criticized the government for criminalizing Combs’s sexual practices
• The racketeering indictment centers on predicate acts claimed to include forced labor, kidnapping, arson and bribery orchestrated by Combs’s organization to serve his demands
• If found guilty on all five counts, Combs faces a potential sentence of life in prison after being held without bail since his September 2024 arrest