{"id":6398,"date":"2025-06-10T15:39:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T15:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/diddy-trial-motion-for-mistrial-denied-by-judge\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T15:39:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T15:39:53","slug":"diddy-trial-motion-for-mistrial-denied-by-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/diddy-trial-motion-for-mistrial-denied-by-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Diddy Trial Motion For Mistrial Denied By Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tA<\/span> motion for a mistrial in the Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs sex trafficking trial has been denied by a federal judge.<\/p>\n

\n\tAttorneys for the embattled hip hop mogul had argued that prosecutors knowingly introduced false testimony by Bryana Bongolan <\/strong>\u2013 the witness who claimed last week that Combs dangled her from a 17-story balcony in 2016.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut at the start of Tuesday\u2019s proceedings, Judge Arun Subramanian said the alleged issue did not rise to the level of a trial-ending error: \u201cThis is not fodder for a mistrial. This is the adversarial process at work,\u201d Subramanian said from the bench, according to ABC<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tCombs is standing trial on racketeering and sex trafficking charges over accusations that he ran a sprawling criminal operation aimed at facilitating freak-offs \u2014 elaborate events which he allegedly forced his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura and other women to have sex with male escorts while he watched and masturbated.<\/p>\n

\n\tProsecutors also say the star and his associates used violence, money and blackmail to keep victims silent and under his control. (Read Billboard<\/em>\u2018s full explainer of the case against Diddy here.) Combs had pleaded not guilty; if convicted on all of the charges, he faces a potential sentence of life in prison.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith the case halfway through a trial expected to run eight weeks, Diddy\u2019s defense team moved for a mistrial based on Bongolan\u2019s testimony about the balcony incident, one of the flashiest accusations in the case.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a motion filed Saturday, the star\u2019s lawyers said prosecutors had presented jurors with \u201cdemonstrably false\u201d evidence during her time on the stand. Bongolan testified that she took photos of her injuries from the attack on September 26, 2016, but defense attorneys said they had hotel receipts showing Diddy was in New York from Sept. 24 to 29 of that year.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe government knew or should have known this testimony was perjured, and that Ms. Bongolan could not possibly have been injured by Mr. Combs on a Los Angeles balcony in the early morning hours of September 26, or even the day before that,\u201d his lawyers wrote in the motion, also claiming that Bongolan had committed perjury.<\/p>\n

\n\tProsecutors did not respond with a written filing of their own, but they argued in court last week that the attack could have happened before the September 24and that Bongolan merely documented it later. Presented with the receipts and subject to withering cross examination, Bongolan stood by her story but admitted that she was unsure of the date.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing Tuesday\u2019s denial, the trial will continue on with more testimony from prosecution witnesses. The most recent is \u201cJane,\u201d a former girlfriend who testified last week and Monday that Diddy physically, sexually and psychologically abused her. She is facing cross-examination during Tuesday\u2019s proceedings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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