The defense has officially responded in the Diddy trial with powerful opening statements aimed at dismantling the prosecution’s case. Diddy’s legal team laid out their strategy, denied the explosive allegations, and presented their side of the story to the jury.
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00:00:00 --> 00:00:02 Hey, hey everybody. This is Demia Avery
00:00:02 --> 00:00:05 of the Demia Avery Show. So, this is the
00:00:05 --> 00:00:07 second half of my video. This is the
00:00:07 --> 00:00:10 defense opening statement for the Diddy
00:00:10 --> 00:00:14 trial day one, and I'm just going to go
00:00:14 --> 00:00:15 over it. If you haven't seen the first
00:00:15 --> 00:00:17 one, make sure you go back and check
00:00:17 --> 00:00:20 that one out. So, here we go. The
00:00:20 --> 00:00:23 attorney's name for Diddy's last name is
00:00:23 --> 00:00:26 Garagos. All right. So Garrett Ghost
00:00:26 --> 00:00:29 begins saying, "Uh, Sean Combmes is a
00:00:29 --> 00:00:31 complicated man, but this is not a
00:00:31 --> 00:00:34 complicated case. The case is about
00:00:34 --> 00:00:37 love, jealousy, infidelity, and money.
00:00:37 --> 00:00:39 This case is about voluntary adult
00:00:39 --> 00:00:42 choices made by capable adults and
00:00:42 --> 00:00:43 consensual
00:00:43 --> 00:00:45 relationships. At a time when everything
00:00:45 --> 00:00:48 in government can feel so uncertain, one
00:00:48 --> 00:00:50 thing remains the same. The one thing
00:00:50 --> 00:00:52 standing between all of us and criminal
00:00:52 --> 00:00:56 conviction is a jury of our peers. There
00:00:56 --> 00:00:58 has been a tremendous amount of noise
00:00:58 --> 00:01:00 around the case over the last year. It
00:01:00 --> 00:01:02 is a time to cancel the noise and hear
00:01:02 --> 00:01:04 and see the evidence presented in this
00:01:04 --> 00:01:07 courtroom and it will be crystal clear.
00:01:07 --> 00:01:09 You will see them put on a performance
00:01:09 --> 00:01:11 high on ecstasy while they pretend to
00:01:11 --> 00:01:14 enjoy themselves because that's what the
00:01:14 --> 00:01:17 defendant said she wanted.
00:01:17 --> 00:01:19 uh standing in this courtroom at 55
00:01:19 --> 00:01:21 years old in the same place he was born
00:01:21 --> 00:01:23 and raised. He's going by the same name
00:01:23 --> 00:01:27 he was born with. Shawn Combmes Gargo
00:01:27 --> 00:01:29 says this is about private personal
00:01:29 --> 00:01:31 smeck's life which has nothing to do
00:01:31 --> 00:01:35 with his lawful businesses. The people
00:01:35 --> 00:01:37 who will take the stand will say that
00:01:37 --> 00:01:40 they knew nothing about any enterprise.
00:01:40 --> 00:01:42 That's because these hardworking
00:01:42 --> 00:01:45 individuals were doing their jobs,
00:01:45 --> 00:01:48 running his businesses. She goes on to
00:01:48 --> 00:01:50 say that Diddy takes full responsibility
00:01:50 --> 00:01:53 for acts of domestic violence in this
00:01:53 --> 00:01:58 case, but domestic violence is not smeck
00:01:58 --> 00:02:01 trafficking. Domestic violence is a very
00:02:01 --> 00:02:04 serious matter. It is bad and an illegal
00:02:04 --> 00:02:07 problem. We take full responsibility
00:02:07 --> 00:02:09 that there was domestic violence in this
00:02:09 --> 00:02:13 case. Domestic violence is not smeck
00:02:13 --> 00:02:15 trafficking. I want to say it again.
00:02:15 --> 00:02:17 Domestic violence is not smeck
00:02:17 --> 00:02:19 trafficking. Had he been charged with
00:02:20 --> 00:02:22 domestic violence or assault, we would
00:02:22 --> 00:02:26 not be here right now. Shawn Combmes has
00:02:26 --> 00:02:28 a temper and when he drank and took the
00:02:28 --> 00:02:31 wrong drugs, he got violent. My client
00:02:31 --> 00:02:34 is not proud of that. John Combmes has a
00:02:34 --> 00:02:36 bad temper and sometimes when he gets so
00:02:36 --> 00:02:39 angry or jealous, he sometimes gets out
00:02:39 --> 00:02:42 of control. Um, Gyros went on to say
00:02:42 --> 00:02:44 that there may be points in the trial
00:02:44 --> 00:02:46 where jurors think that Combmes is a
00:02:46 --> 00:02:49 jerk or he's mean. He's not charged with
00:02:50 --> 00:02:52 being a jerk or being mean. He's charged
00:02:52 --> 00:02:54 with running a criminal enterprise, she
00:02:54 --> 00:02:57 said. In her opening statement, defense
00:02:57 --> 00:03:01 uh attorney Geros referenced the massive
00:03:01 --> 00:03:03 amount of baby oil that was seized by
00:03:04 --> 00:03:07 law enforcement searching Diddy's home
00:03:07 --> 00:03:10 last year. She says, "You may know of
00:03:10 --> 00:03:12 his love of baby oil. Is that a federal
00:03:12 --> 00:03:16 crime?" No.
00:03:16 --> 00:03:20 Prosecutors. Uh oh, guys, I lost my Oh.
00:03:20 --> 00:03:22 Prosecutors alleged Combmes used baby
00:03:22 --> 00:03:24 oil during what he called freakoffs or
00:03:24 --> 00:03:27 elaborate SMMEX performances in which he
00:03:27 --> 00:03:30 allegedly drugged and coerced victims
00:03:30 --> 00:03:33 into extending SMMEX acts with male
00:03:33 --> 00:03:37 SMMEX workers. in court today. Uh Geros
00:03:38 --> 00:03:40 says Combmes would be accountable for
00:03:40 --> 00:03:42 these things he did, but we will fight
00:03:42 --> 00:03:45 for his freedom for the things he did
00:03:45 --> 00:03:48 not do. She says Garagos tells the jury
00:03:48 --> 00:03:51 that they will hear evidence of Comb's
00:03:51 --> 00:03:54 smeual preferences and it may make them
00:03:54 --> 00:03:56 uncomfortable. She says the events in
00:03:56 --> 00:03:58 the hotel rooms were part of a swinger's
00:03:58 --> 00:04:01 lifestyle, which she describes as a
00:04:01 --> 00:04:05 fancier term for a threesome, but you
00:04:05 --> 00:04:07 are not here to judge him for his sexual
00:04:07 --> 00:04:10 preferences, she tells the jury. Uh the
00:04:10 --> 00:04:12 attorney goes on to uh say she brought
00:04:12 --> 00:04:15 up the 2016 hotel surve surveillance
00:04:15 --> 00:04:18 video in which Diddy is seen physically
00:04:18 --> 00:04:21 assaulting his then girlfriend Cassie
00:04:21 --> 00:04:24 that day. Unfortunately, jealousy was on
00:04:24 --> 00:04:26 full display, Geralgo said, adding that
00:04:26 --> 00:04:29 Combmes had taken bad drugs. What
00:04:29 --> 00:04:31 Combmes did to Cassie on this videotape
00:04:31 --> 00:04:34 is indefensible. It's horrible. It's
00:04:34 --> 00:04:36 dehumanizing. It's violent. It's
00:04:36 --> 00:04:38 virtually every bad word you can think
00:04:38 --> 00:04:41 of. It is not evidence of sex
00:04:41 --> 00:04:44 trafficking, she said. It is evidence of
00:04:44 --> 00:04:47 domestic violence. I'm not justifying
00:04:47 --> 00:04:49 the assault, not by a long shot, but I
00:04:49 --> 00:04:52 am putting it putting it in the proper
00:04:52 --> 00:04:55 context, she said. In 2018, Cassie
00:04:55 --> 00:04:58 Ventur saw a gossip site posting about
00:04:58 --> 00:05:00 Diddy walking out of a hotel room with
00:05:00 --> 00:05:03 another woman and decided to end things.
00:05:03 --> 00:05:06 His attorney said she made a choice
00:05:06 --> 00:05:08 every single day for years. a choice to
00:05:08 --> 00:05:11 stay with him, a choice to fight for him
00:05:11 --> 00:05:14 because for excuse me 11 years that was
00:05:14 --> 00:05:16 the better choice. That was her
00:05:16 --> 00:05:18 preferred choice. She made the choice to
00:05:18 --> 00:05:20 stay with him until one day she decided
00:05:20 --> 00:05:22 she was going to break up with him
00:05:22 --> 00:05:25 because that was her preferred choice.
00:05:25 --> 00:05:27 When she made that decision to leave,
00:05:27 --> 00:05:28 there was no repercussions as the
00:05:28 --> 00:05:30 government hinted. She made the choice
00:05:30 --> 00:05:33 to leave. She communicated it to him and
00:05:33 --> 00:05:36 ran into the arms of another man.
00:05:36 --> 00:05:38 physical trainer Comolmes had hired to
00:05:38 --> 00:05:39 train
00:05:39 --> 00:05:43 her. She goes on to say, "Ventur left
00:05:43 --> 00:05:46 the relationship on her terms. The end
00:05:46 --> 00:05:48 of the relationship between Cassie and
00:05:48 --> 00:05:51 Combmes is important. She left on her
00:05:51 --> 00:05:53 terms her choices and for the reasons
00:05:53 --> 00:05:56 that for her were the right reasons."
00:05:56 --> 00:05:59 Geros said that Ventur was a willing
00:05:59 --> 00:06:01 participant in their Smeck's life. This
00:06:01 --> 00:06:04 was a voluntary adult choice by two
00:06:04 --> 00:06:05 capable
00:06:05 --> 00:06:08 adults. Um, the defense attorney said
00:06:08 --> 00:06:11 the videos of the freakoffs are intimate
00:06:11 --> 00:06:13 and jurors may find them hard to watch,
00:06:13 --> 00:06:16 but argued they are strong evidence that
00:06:16 --> 00:06:19 the events were consensual and not based
00:06:19 --> 00:06:20 on
00:06:20 --> 00:06:23 coercion. Gergos said that Jane
00:06:23 --> 00:06:26 willingly participated in hotel nights
00:06:26 --> 00:06:29 with Diddy Combmes for three years. She
00:06:29 --> 00:06:31 tried many times to change the tenure of
00:06:31 --> 00:06:33 their relationship to something deeper
00:06:34 --> 00:06:36 or more meaning meaningful, but it
00:06:36 --> 00:06:38 always came back to what they would call
00:06:38 --> 00:06:41 parties these nights in the hotel rooms.
00:06:41 --> 00:06:44 Um Col's attorney went on to say that
00:06:44 --> 00:06:46 Jane was driven by jealousy. If she
00:06:46 --> 00:06:48 walked away, she would have lost him,
00:06:48 --> 00:06:50 and that is not something she was
00:06:50 --> 00:06:53 willing to do. Garagos described Jane
00:06:53 --> 00:06:56 and Col's relationship as toxic and
00:06:56 --> 00:06:58 dysfunctional. She said Jane traveled to
00:06:58 --> 00:07:01 see Holmes many times and continued to
00:07:01 --> 00:07:04 engage in the freakoffs even after the
00:07:04 --> 00:07:05 phone call in
00:07:05 --> 00:07:08 2023. "Being a willing participant in
00:07:08 --> 00:07:11 your own smeck's life is not Smeck's
00:07:11 --> 00:07:14 trafficking," she said. The uh Garagos
00:07:14 --> 00:07:16 ended her opening statements by urging
00:07:16 --> 00:07:18 jurors to consider motive as they hear
00:07:18 --> 00:07:21 testimony during the trial. Diddy
00:07:21 --> 00:07:23 Combmes. She referenced one of Comb's
00:07:23 --> 00:07:26 employees who prosecutors earlier said
00:07:26 --> 00:07:29 Combmes smeually abused. She encouraged
00:07:29 --> 00:07:32 the jury to look closely at the realtime
00:07:32 --> 00:07:35 communications. Everybody who testifies
00:07:35 --> 00:07:38 has a motive. Garagos also questioned
00:07:38 --> 00:07:40 why none of Comb's employees reported
00:07:40 --> 00:07:43 the workplace allegations that that have
00:07:43 --> 00:07:46 come up in this case until now. For many
00:07:46 --> 00:07:48 of them, the answer is simple. Money,
00:07:48 --> 00:07:52 she said. All right, guys. So that's it
00:07:52 --> 00:07:55 for uh right now. Those are the opening
00:07:55 --> 00:07:57 statements. Talk to you guys later.
00:07:57 --> 00:08:00 Bye-bye.