Overview

• Jurors completed their first day of deliberations on June 30 without reaching a verdict and will resume today to determine Combs’s guilt or innocence.
• Combs faces five federal counts including conspiracy, human trafficking for sexual exploitation and transporting persons for prostitution, each carrying a potential life sentence.
• The prosecution’s case featured a 2016 security-camera video of Combs assaulting Cassie and testimony from two accusers who described coercion in organized ‘freak-off’ sessions.
• The defense argues Combs’s relationships were consensual and maintains that the accusers were seeking financial gain, contending that admitted domestic violence does not constitute sex trafficking.
• Judge Arun Subramanian spent two hours delivering detailed jury instructions to minimize procedural errors before sending the twelve-member panel into deliberations that will decide if Combs faces life imprisonment.