Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / DIDDY WHAT?: COURT Hearing OVER IN JUST SECONDS 1 Week After Verdict, DEFENSE "DIDDY IMAGE MAKEOVER
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. I'm Nancy Grace. This is
- 0:07Speaker 1: Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. Joining us
- 0:11Speaker 1: now Tasa Taels from Tasa Tales on YouTube. Tasa what happened?
- 0:15Speaker 2: Okay, So like Diddy's team has done the whole trial.
- 0:20Speaker 1: Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, so they can wait.
- 0:23Speaker 3: We were all ready for it.
- 0:25Speaker 1: There was a letture they.
- 0:27Speaker 4: Sent saying they wanted it moved up to September twenty second.
- 0:29Speaker 5: We were waiting for a legal showdown in the court.
- 0:33Speaker 1: It was all done teleconference.
- 0:36Speaker 6: It was all done teleconference.
- 0:39Speaker 2: And what's more, Diddy's team agreed to the October third,
- 0:44Speaker 2: but they will report early.
- 0:47Speaker 1: If anything.
- 0:48Speaker 2: Everybody in the courtroom collectively rolled their eyes. Again they
- 0:52Speaker 2: were in the overflow room. They did not let anybody
- 0:54Speaker 2: into the courtroom.
- 0:55Speaker 7: Everybody collectively rolled their eyes because.
- 0:57Speaker 2: At the end of the day, this is more finagling
- 1:01Speaker 2: and it actually angered a lot of people even when
- 1:03Speaker 2: they heard that news. Why, because you have to look
- 1:06Speaker 2: at it. Didny's team at least I believe they won
- 1:09Speaker 2: on technicalities. They won on a trial by ambush.
- 1:13Speaker 1: And it looks like for this pre.
- 1:14Speaker 2: Sensitive presentencing report where there's going to be a lot
- 1:17Speaker 2: of character witnesses, a lot of character letters wrote to
- 1:21Speaker 2: the judge, good and bad.
- 1:22Speaker 4: They're once again trying to run the clock off and win.
- 1:26Speaker 2: By a technicality.
- 1:27Speaker 8: The general public wasn't allowed in the main courtroom again.
- 1:31Speaker 2: This was all done looked like by a secure zoom call.
- 1:36Speaker 3: Okay, we could have literally just phoned this in, but
- 1:39Speaker 3: you know the Senatorship New York, they.
- 1:41Speaker 9: Don't like anything tape and you're not allowed to get
- 1:43Speaker 9: into the live feed I guess unless you're one of
- 1:45Speaker 9: the parties joining.
- 1:47Speaker 2: However, they weren't generous enough to let everybody go into
- 1:50Speaker 2: the overflow room.
- 1:52Speaker 3: That is when they put the zoom call on the
- 1:55Speaker 3: big feed again.
- 1:56Speaker 6: Mark Agnifilio's comedy show was in.
- 2:00Speaker 1: Full effect again.
- 2:01Speaker 3: When the screens came on, Mark Agnafilia was like, Sean,
- 2:06Speaker 3: is that jew trying to.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Be funny again?
- 2:08Speaker 7: What aren't you performing for?
- 2:10Speaker 6: I guess he's performing for his public.
- 2:12Speaker 1: He said this was the best clothing he ever did.
- 2:14Speaker 3: He is still on a high. He literally said, Sean,
- 2:17Speaker 3: is that jew did? He said, yeah, where are you?
- 2:21Speaker 1: He said, oh, I'm in my office.
- 2:24Speaker 3: Again.
- 2:24Speaker 2: They could have done this off camera but they wanted
- 2:27Speaker 2: everybody to get into the flow.
- 2:31Speaker 3: They asked, is the government on the government was very dry. Yes,
- 2:36Speaker 3: we're here.
- 2:36Speaker 6: I guess they're still looking their wounds.
- 2:38Speaker 7: Okay.
- 2:39Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, the deputy said, beyond
- 2:42Speaker 2: the letter, is there anything else? Both parties said no,
- 2:47Speaker 2: and they said okay. Meetings adjourned again. When I tell
- 2:50Speaker 2: you it was a nothing burger. Everybody was on the
- 2:53Speaker 2: edge of their seats waiting for something. When it came
- 2:57Speaker 2: to being a nothing burger, it was a giant nothing burger.
- 3:01Speaker 2: And then of course they released the letter to the public.
- 3:04Speaker 2: So we lie of weight to see whatever tricks.
- 3:07Speaker 6: Did He's team, and we're sure they have them have
- 3:10Speaker 6: up their sleeves to make sure that did he even
- 3:12Speaker 6: with those two sex crime convictions, is not held about
- 3:16Speaker 6: a held accountable for what he's done.
- 3:19Speaker 1: Philip Dubay, veteran defense attorney, way in, is this what
- 3:23Speaker 1: you expected?
- 3:24Speaker 7: Absolutely? Are you kidding?
- 3:25Speaker 10: First of all, we're in the dead of summer and
- 3:28Speaker 10: most attorneys court staff have vacation plans ready to go,
- 3:33Speaker 10: and to suggest that they need all this extra time
- 3:35Speaker 10: to prepare and to get witnesses into court is actually
- 3:40Speaker 10: quite laughable, and we use it oftentimes just to placate
- 3:44Speaker 10: the client. You know, patience is bitter, but it's fruit
- 3:46Speaker 10: is sweet. We're going to get you a great sentence,
- 3:49Speaker 10: We're going to get you a great outcome. But the
- 3:51Speaker 10: truth is these attorneys are probably thinking about their prepaid
- 3:55Speaker 10: all inclusive resort getaways that they had scheduled way ahead
- 3:59Speaker 10: of time. The last thing that they need is for
- 4:01Speaker 10: a sentencing hearing to get in the way of that
- 4:03Speaker 10: where they have to reschedule, suffer cancelation fees, and lord
- 4:07Speaker 10: knows what else. So my hunches they need more time
- 4:10Speaker 10: because they want to get out of dodge joining us.
- 4:12Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany Marshall renounced likeo analyst out of the La jurisdiction.
- 4:16Speaker 1: You can see her on Peacock and she is the
- 4:18Speaker 1: author of deal Breakers on Amazon. You can find her
- 4:22Speaker 1: online at doctor Bethany Marshall dot com. Doctor Bethany Marshall,
- 4:26Speaker 1: what do you make of it?
- 4:27Speaker 5: Well, I do think it's much to do about nothing.
- 4:29Speaker 5: I think that when people have nothing to say, they
- 4:32Speaker 5: keep shuffling the shells around, right, and this just seems
- 4:35Speaker 5: like a big shuffle. What I'm really worried about, Right,
- 4:38Speaker 5: now is after the sentencing. If it's too short, what
- 4:42Speaker 5: is going to happen with all of the victims. I mean,
- 4:45Speaker 5: are the victims even being held in mind? I'm not
- 4:47Speaker 5: talking about sex trafficked victims from all over the world.
- 4:50Speaker 1: I'm talking about.
- 4:51Speaker 5: Cassie Ventura, Mia Jane, all these women who are so
- 4:56Speaker 5: brave to go out on the stand and to really
- 4:58Speaker 5: tell their truth, risk shame, risk humiliation. And now the
- 5:04Speaker 5: Agnifholo is just doing a big shell game, trying to
- 5:08Speaker 5: sort of he's tap dancing, trying to look like he's busier.
- 5:12Speaker 3: Than he really is.
- 5:13Speaker 5: I think actually that the die is cast. I think
- 5:17Speaker 5: Sebradium has a pretty good idea of what's going on.
- 5:20Speaker 5: I think he's going to give him the maximum. I
- 5:22Speaker 5: do know because I'm married to a judge. Often they
- 5:25Speaker 5: try to.
- 5:25Speaker 1: Split the baby.
- 5:26Speaker 5: Even if they're disappointed after a jury verdict. They may
- 5:30Speaker 5: not like what the jury decided, but they will try
- 5:33Speaker 5: to walk a fine line between what they think is
- 5:36Speaker 5: a fair sentence and what and upholding the opinions of
- 5:40Speaker 5: the jurors the American public. But in this case, there are.
- 5:43Speaker 1: So many victims at risk. That's what worries me.
- 5:47Speaker 5: The most and I'm sure Lynn can talk more about this, but.
- 5:52Speaker 2: P.
- 5:52Speaker 5: Didy is a menace to society. He's a true menace.
- 5:57Speaker 5: The fact that he was holding a freak off the
- 6:01Speaker 5: night that the Feds came for him, what does that
- 6:03Speaker 5: tell you about his future offending behavior. He's not going
- 6:07Speaker 5: to leave prison chased or remorseful or trying to slow
- 6:11Speaker 5: down the party bus. He's going to be even more
- 6:13Speaker 5: galvanized than before. So I just hope this sentencing keeps
- 6:17Speaker 5: society as safe as possible for as long as possible.
- 6:21Speaker 1: Joining me is Lynn Shaw, founder and director of Lynn's Warriors,
- 6:25Speaker 1: dedicated to ending sex trafficking and exploitation of girls and women.
- 6:30Speaker 1: Lynn Shaw. At least the judge sent a message to
- 6:35Speaker 1: the victims, what's your response?
- 6:37Speaker 11: Well, first of all, everybody's hitting the nail on the head,
- 6:39Speaker 11: But I have to ask, where is the standing ovation
- 6:43Speaker 11: for all of these victims that came forward and laid
- 6:46Speaker 11: it out, put their lives on the line. Yes, I'm
- 6:48Speaker 11: going to say put their lives on the line. This
- 6:50Speaker 11: case of one Shawn Colmbs. I refused to call him
- 6:53Speaker 11: dirty Ditty, as I was referring to him for many
- 6:55Speaker 11: weeks because It's not cute at all any more. This
- 6:58Speaker 11: was bigger than just this case. This was something that
- 7:01Speaker 11: all victims and survivors of sexual exploitation abuse, rape crimes.
- 7:06Speaker 11: It kind of infected all of society. We have spent
- 7:11Speaker 11: the exhaustive last couple of weeks unraveling all this, with
- 7:15Speaker 11: victims talking them through everything. But I have to say
- 7:19Speaker 11: again a slap in the face for all victims who
- 7:22Speaker 11: are following along and they're all looking at this and
- 7:24Speaker 11: they're all talking about it. I can ensure that this
- 7:28Speaker 11: is what they're doing, and they're looking at it as
- 7:30Speaker 11: another man of power, wealth over and celebrity over their truths.
- 7:35Speaker 1: And you know what, I.
- 7:37Speaker 11: Think this is just something that they're playing games now,
- 7:40Speaker 11: and that is so insulting. How the lawyer is acting,
- 7:42Speaker 11: you know on the video with Sean Combs making small talk.
- 7:46Speaker 11: It's disgusting. It shouldn't even be allowed. And you know what,
- 7:50Speaker 11: we are all about empowering the victims and survivors. And
- 7:53Speaker 11: we pray that the judge does when this comes around
- 7:56Speaker 11: in October October third, he does the right thing and
- 7:59Speaker 11: gives him the maximum sentence he can give him.
- 8:01Speaker 1: To doctor Dwayne Hendrix, joining US now former Assayciate Award
- 8:04Speaker 1: at the MDC. You can find him at new Dallightfoundation
- 8:09Speaker 1: dot com. Doctor Hendrix, Are you surprised?
- 8:12Speaker 12: So, I'm not surprised mister Combs and his legal team
- 8:15Speaker 12: pivoted from their earlier strategy of an expedited sentence.
- 8:19Speaker 7: I believe after they came.
- 8:20Speaker 12: Down off the euphoria of the verdict last week, they
- 8:23Speaker 12: realized that it was in mister Combs's best interest to
- 8:27Speaker 12: go ahead and go through the pre sentenced investigation. And
- 8:30Speaker 12: I've also believed that if mister Combs fully cooperates with
- 8:35Speaker 12: the pre sentenced investigation and talks about his childhood, especially
- 8:42Speaker 12: accepting responsibility and what brought him to this point in
- 8:46Speaker 12: his life and where he's going to go from here,
- 8:49Speaker 12: it probably will help mitigate the sentence that he's going
- 8:52Speaker 12: to receive in October three. Also, I've also believed if
- 8:56Speaker 12: he received a sentence of less than twenty seven months,
- 9:00Speaker 12: he'll probably serve his time.
- 9:01Speaker 7: At MDC Brooklyn.
- 9:03Speaker 12: And the reason why I say that is because he's
- 9:04Speaker 12: already has a year of jail credit, nearly a year
- 9:08Speaker 12: of jail credit, and then he'll also earn about a
- 9:11Speaker 12: month and a half a good cond of time, and
- 9:13Speaker 12: also he'll be able to serve thirty to ninety days
- 9:16Speaker 12: on own detention if he continues good behavior while he's at.
- 9:21Speaker 1: MDC Brooklyn, Doctor Hendrix, what happens now for Shawn Comes.
- 9:26Speaker 12: He'll remain at MDC Brooklyn until his sentencing on October third,
- 9:31Speaker 12: and during this time he'll try to maintain a low
- 9:34Speaker 12: profile good behavior and also go through the pre sentenced
- 9:38Speaker 12: investigation and probably spend a lot of time visiting with
- 9:41Speaker 12: his family until his sentencing in October.
- 9:45Speaker 1: Doctor Hendrix will Seawan Comes stay where he is now
- 9:50Speaker 1: until sentencing set for October.
- 9:52Speaker 12: So over the last year, in prior to that, MDC
- 9:55Speaker 12: Brooklyn has had a lot of issues and concerns and challenges,
- 10:00Speaker 12: and mister Colmbs made it very clear and his legal
- 10:02Speaker 12: team made it very clear that they didn't want him
- 10:04Speaker 12: house there. However, I find it interesting now that he's
- 10:08Speaker 12: been clear on the major charges and only convicted on
- 10:11Speaker 12: the lesser charges, and now that he's had a standing
- 10:15Speaker 12: ovation when he returned back to the unit. Now I
- 10:19Speaker 12: think that they would rather have him do his time
- 10:22Speaker 12: if he is sentenced more than a year and a
- 10:24Speaker 12: day or time served they would rather have him do
- 10:27Speaker 12: his time at NBC Brooklyn and not anywhere else across
- 10:30Speaker 12: the country. And that way he don't have to go
- 10:33Speaker 12: get on a bus, get on the airlift, where that
- 10:36Speaker 12: black box, Martin chain, and leg irons. So I would
- 10:42Speaker 12: say because of the decreased population, better leadership at the institution,
- 10:49Speaker 12: the challenges have subsided at NDC Brooklyn.
- 10:52Speaker 1: Debate way in.
- 10:54Speaker 10: Well, first of all, it wasn't so expedited. If I recall,
- 10:57Speaker 10: the initial report was going to be a win September fifteenth,
- 11:02Speaker 10: you know, so that's what a month and a half away.
- 11:05Speaker 10: Then they wanted the actual sentencing hearing on September the
- 11:09Speaker 10: twenty second. So all they're really doing is moving it
- 11:12Speaker 10: from September twenty second to October third. We're talking about
- 11:16Speaker 10: a couple of weeks here, and the practical reality of
- 11:19Speaker 10: it is it's very hard to coordinate scheduling for every
- 11:23Speaker 10: member of the defense team, and out of fairness to
- 11:25Speaker 10: the prosecution, they have a right to be heard as
- 11:28Speaker 10: to what date would be convenient and work for them
- 11:30Speaker 10: as well, So they probably just decided, look, October third
- 11:34Speaker 10: is good enough. We can get our vacations done, we
- 11:37Speaker 10: can get our memos filed, we can get the oppositions
- 11:40Speaker 10: filed and be heard in its totality, so no harm,
- 11:43Speaker 10: no foul in the end. But really, if you think
- 11:45Speaker 10: about it, just wasted everybody's time by dropping all these
- 11:49Speaker 10: letters to the cord requesting that the court dates get
- 11:52Speaker 10: advanced to a sooner date. But in truth, they're really
- 11:55Speaker 10: thinking about whether or not they're going to have ample
- 11:57Speaker 10: time to have their mind ties at whatever is or
- 12:00Speaker 10: that they already had pre planned. So in the end,
- 12:02Speaker 10: we're really talking about a two week differential.
- 12:05Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany Marshall, what do you think, you know.
- 12:08Speaker 5: Nancy, what's very interesting about men who fit a sociopathic
- 12:12Speaker 5: profile is that they have a lot of bravado. They
- 12:16Speaker 5: relate to others on the basis of power. They believe
- 12:19Speaker 5: they're at the center of things until they face very
- 12:22Speaker 5: serious consequences, and then they fall apart. In fact, they
- 12:27Speaker 5: become quite paranoid. I'm thinking about a patient who came
- 12:30Speaker 5: into my office who was committing all kinds of fraud,
- 12:33Speaker 5: and he was sort of a bully with his family and.
- 12:36Speaker 1: With his relatives.
- 12:37Speaker 5: He came into session crying, paranoid, thinking that his phone
- 12:41Speaker 5: was being tapped, but the minute he was acquitted, he
- 12:45Speaker 5: went right back to the bravado again. So if p
- 12:49Speaker 5: did he fits this offending style, I think he was
- 12:53Speaker 5: headed for some kind of a mild breakdown if he
- 12:57Speaker 5: got life in prison. Now, in my eyes, he's kind
- 13:01Speaker 5: of been exonerated. Okay, you know, a transportation to engage
- 13:07Speaker 5: in prostitution. I mean, just the least charge. This is
- 13:11Speaker 5: going to help him gather his psychological resources. He in
- 13:16Speaker 5: his mind, is going to win. He is going to
- 13:20Speaker 5: beat this. He's going to be a good prisoner. He's
- 13:24Speaker 5: going to be out on his best behavior. I really
- 13:27Speaker 5: shudder to think about what happens when he leaves prison,
- 13:32Speaker 5: because men like this become angrier and even more ready
- 13:36Speaker 5: to offend once they're incarcerated. And do you know why, because,
- 13:41Speaker 5: especially if they're sex addicts or their deviant, all they
- 13:44Speaker 5: have is their sex fantasies. They may not have any
- 13:47Speaker 5: as many victims to manipulate. Maybe some of the other prisoners,
- 13:51Speaker 5: but not in the way that you would manipulate like
- 13:54Speaker 5: children and women outside of the prison system. So by
- 13:57Speaker 5: the time they get out, they are mad. And I
- 14:01Speaker 5: think what we need to do is follow P Didty
- 14:03Speaker 5: in the future and make sure that he doesn't become
- 14:06Speaker 5: even more destructive in the way he relates to people
- 14:09Speaker 5: around him.
- 14:10Speaker 1: In the last hours a ruling, Seawan Comes appears before
- 14:14Speaker 1: the judge demanding a bond. Judge says, no way. Wow
- 14:21Speaker 1: makes me think of all the time sa Cassie, Ventura,
- 14:24Speaker 1: Jane and Maya wanted out. But they didn't get out,
- 14:27Speaker 1: did they? They were forced back in the ring to
- 14:30Speaker 1: have sex with male sex workers. Wonder what that feels like?
- 14:34Speaker 1: Think about it? Did he? There's no doubt in my
- 14:36Speaker 1: mind at the moment Shawn Comes would have walked out
- 14:39Speaker 1: of that courthouse, he would be straight on his way
- 14:42Speaker 1: to Teeborough and out of this country. Sidney Sumner, what
- 14:45Speaker 1: exactly happened?
- 14:46Speaker 13: So the hearing lasted all of two minutes total. We
- 14:51Speaker 13: expected the defense to put up a bigger fight to
- 14:55Speaker 13: expedite the sentencing, but they were tracked their claws and
- 15:00Speaker 13: agreed to the October third sentencing date. So that gives
- 15:04Speaker 13: investigators plenty of time for a pre sentencing investigation to
- 15:09Speaker 13: talk to all of the people important to Sean Combe's
- 15:12Speaker 13: important to this case against him, to determine how long
- 15:16Speaker 13: he should spend behind bars now, Judge Tuberbunning and at
- 15:20Speaker 13: some point as that both council come to more of
- 15:25Speaker 13: an agreement on their sentencing recommendations. Right now, it's quite
- 15:29Speaker 13: a stark difference. Defense attorneys are asking for twenty one
- 15:34Speaker 13: to twenty seven months behind bars while while the government
- 15:39Speaker 13: is asking for fifty one to sixty three months. So
- 15:43Speaker 13: we're hovering at a very large gap in between those
- 15:46Speaker 13: two recommendations. So we may see further discussions trying to
- 15:51Speaker 13: minimize the difference in their two requests.
- 15:54Speaker 1: Joining us now. Tasa tels from Tisa Tales on YouTube
- 15:57Speaker 1: Tisa what happened Holy getting a standing ovation? We need
- 16:01Speaker 1: to revisit it.
- 16:02Speaker 9: First of all, Mark Agnofilio is the one that told
- 16:05Speaker 9: us this.
- 16:06Speaker 2: So I think we do actually need a fact checker
- 16:08Speaker 2: because my Agnophilia also stood in front of the judge
- 16:11Speaker 2: and said that Cassie and Diddy were modern day love story.
- 16:14Speaker 8: He also turned in a judge and said that Freakals
- 16:16Speaker 8: was like your partner loving strawberry.
- 16:19Speaker 7: Lemonade and you not liking it.
- 16:21Speaker 3: He also did.
- 16:22Speaker 4: Say that Jane that Diddy might have.
- 16:25Speaker 2: Been provoked with Jane and beating her viciously with self defense.
- 16:29Speaker 8: So again, the only people we have confirming this story
- 16:33Speaker 8: was actually Ditty's lawyer, Mark Agnifhilio.
- 16:36Speaker 7: But even in the.
- 16:37Speaker 2: Standing ovation, I think Diddy's team might be in a
- 16:40Speaker 2: little bit of a kerfuffle. They know, at least I
- 16:43Speaker 2: would guess that between now and sentencing, they need to
- 16:47Speaker 2: look make Diddy.
- 16:48Speaker 3: Look like he is the hope reborn.
- 16:50Speaker 2: I think they're trying to do a lot of feel
- 16:52Speaker 2: good stories, but the fact that that whole standing ovation
- 16:56Speaker 2: story kind of fell flat.
- 16:57Speaker 1: Because at the end of the day, who is copping
- 17:00Speaker 1: for you? People that are beyond hopeless wishing.
- 17:03Speaker 2: They had one iota of your access, of your fame,
- 17:07Speaker 2: of your privilege, of your money so that they could
- 17:10Speaker 2: hire the Dream Team and get out of jail.
- 17:13Speaker 3: Again, when they say that the.
- 17:16Speaker 2: Inmates were clapping for Ditty, I said it once and
- 17:18Speaker 2: I'll say it again.
- 17:19Speaker 4: They arett clapping for the man. They're clapping for the
- 17:22Speaker 4: fantasy that one day they can earn enough, take enough,
- 17:29Speaker 4: steal enough.
- 17:30Speaker 6: However, they get it so that they too cannot be
- 17:35Speaker 6: held accountable for the crimes that they are being accused of.
- 17:39Speaker 2: Again, you gotta wonder, did it actually happen and even
- 17:42Speaker 2: if it did happen, this is not a good thing.
- 17:46Speaker 1: This is not a good thing. It's actually embarrassing.
- 17:48Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, this.
- 17:50Speaker 2: Is the most support publicly that Ditty's going to be
- 17:53Speaker 2: getting for a long while.
- 17:55Speaker 1: I fully expect for there to be another bond hearing
- 17:58Speaker 1: before sentencing.
- 18:00Speaker 10: No, I think that they're going to need the full
- 18:02Speaker 10: period of time to prepare.
- 18:04Speaker 7: I really believe that there.
- 18:06Speaker 10: Are scheduling conflicts. You know, it'd be different if there
- 18:09Speaker 10: was only one member of the defense team one member
- 18:12Speaker 10: of the prosecution. But they are relying now on the
- 18:16Speaker 10: input from probation to get reports together, the input from
- 18:20Speaker 10: the US Attorney's Office and the entire sort of defense conglomerate,
- 18:25Speaker 10: And they've all agreed upon a date and they're going
- 18:27Speaker 10: to use that time wisely to get everybody interviewed, marshal
- 18:30Speaker 10: their resources, and get prepared for the October third date.
- 18:34Speaker 10: They're going to use it as a drop dead date.
- 18:36Speaker 1: No bond for Sean comes. Did he will sit behind
- 18:39Speaker 1: bars and wait for sentencing? But how did we get here?
- 18:45Speaker 14: This has worked, this strategy, which was his strategy, not
- 18:49Speaker 14: his lawyers, It has worked.
- 18:51Speaker 1: Did he orchestrates everything. If he pulls this off, it
- 18:54Speaker 1: will be his own orchestration.
- 18:57Speaker 14: If he pulls this off, he will feel invincible, and
- 19:00Speaker 14: at the moment he is feeling pretty dumb goodness.
- 19:05Speaker 1: After a split verdict where Shawn Combs is acquitted of rico,
- 19:12Speaker 1: two other counts come into play. Shawn comes convicted on
- 19:15Speaker 1: two felony counts. There was a massive argument via paper
- 19:22Speaker 1: to keep Shawn Combs behind bars, the defense fighting tooth
- 19:26Speaker 1: and nail to let him out on appeal bond, which
- 19:29Speaker 1: means you get out while your conviction is being appealed.
- 19:35Speaker 1: Joining me right now, Tisa Tales. You can find her
- 19:38Speaker 1: on YouTube at Tisa Tales. Tisa start at the beginning, Start.
- 19:43Speaker 7: With the verdict, the split.
- 19:47Speaker 9: What happened when the jury walked in, everybody was on
- 19:51Speaker 9: pins and needles.
- 19:52Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie.
- 19:53Speaker 9: Everybody in the courtroom expected him to be guiltied on
- 19:58Speaker 9: at least the sex trafficking. There was a somber tone
- 20:02Speaker 9: they walked in and when they said please read, and
- 20:06Speaker 9: they said, what do you find ye on count one?
- 20:10Speaker 9: Not guilty? It was a bomb that went off in
- 20:13Speaker 9: the courtroom. The public audibly gassed nobody was expecting that
- 20:19Speaker 9: there were cheers of joy from Ditty's side. Count two,
- 20:24Speaker 9: what say ye not guilty again? Another bombshell went off.
- 20:29Speaker 9: People were in utter disbelief. Any even Diddy's most ardent
- 20:33Speaker 9: supporters did not expect him to get off on the
- 20:36Speaker 9: count of sex trafficking with Cassie. Count three, when they
- 20:40Speaker 9: said guilty for transportation of a prostitute, When they said
- 20:45Speaker 9: guilty for the man a, that is when Diddy's team
- 20:49Speaker 9: actually cheered, Yeah, that's all right, okay, okay, come on,
- 20:53Speaker 9: almost like you were.
- 20:53Speaker 3: Watching a pro football game.
- 20:56Speaker 9: When the other ones came in after that, there were
- 20:59Speaker 9: jaws on the grind.
- 21:00Speaker 3: It was unbelievable.
- 21:01Speaker 9: People were looking at the jury searching and to how
- 21:05Speaker 9: they can get a verdict in this day and age.
- 21:08Speaker 9: They heard Cassie's mother, the twenty thousand, they heard Capricorn Clark,
- 21:13Speaker 9: they heard about the savage beatings, and it was unbelievable
- 21:17Speaker 9: that the only thing they.
- 21:18Speaker 3: Said was prostitution. And that is because Daniel.
- 21:22Speaker 9: Phillips in his testimony actually said, at least I'm guessing
- 21:25Speaker 9: that it was because that he got paid to have
- 21:28Speaker 9: sex for money.
- 21:30Speaker 3: It was a travesty. It was an all out circus.
- 21:34Speaker 9: Everybody, including myself, are running to safety.
- 21:44Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace. I got a question Fortisa
- 21:49Speaker 1: Tales and everyone's going to want to know this. You're
- 21:52Speaker 1: in a car right now. You had to leave the courthouse.
- 21:56Speaker 9: Why I had to leave the courthouse because Diddy's supporters
- 22:00Speaker 9: were out of control. The first time I ran and
- 22:02Speaker 9: dipped my live. Of course I had two armed security guys.
- 22:06Speaker 9: Everyone told me the people in the courthouse is like,
- 22:08Speaker 9: make sure you have security. There's a lot of weird
- 22:11Speaker 9: stuff going on. It wasn't just me, but I'll tell
- 22:14Speaker 9: you what I experienced. Diddy support is surrounding me, threatening me,
- 22:18Speaker 9: saying that they were going to hurt me.
- 22:20Speaker 3: It was a serious situation.
- 22:22Speaker 15: It got so bad and there was so much chalos
- 22:25Speaker 15: of chaos and violence that they actually had to lock
- 22:28Speaker 15: the courtroom down and force the Diddy supporters across the street.
- 22:32Speaker 9: It was something myself, the news media, mainstream media, new
- 22:37Speaker 9: media have never seen in.
- 22:38Speaker 3: Their lives the level.
- 22:40Speaker 9: And again the jurors, I hope to god they know
- 22:46Speaker 9: how to sleep at night, because again I'm sure they
- 22:48Speaker 9: did their duty. But when all that chast was happening,
- 22:52Speaker 9: as I was being threatened and ushered out by armed
- 22:55Speaker 9: security people.
- 22:56Speaker 3: I thought, this is what the jury did.
- 22:59Speaker 9: They sent a six no that it is okay to
- 23:01Speaker 9: use violence, It's okay to drug people up. It's okay
- 23:06Speaker 9: to live a life of debauchery. It's okay to do
- 23:09Speaker 9: whatever you want. Because guess what if you work hard
- 23:12Speaker 9: enough and you have enough money and enough delusional fans,
- 23:16Speaker 9: and you have engrained yourself in culture enough that you
- 23:19Speaker 9: can do whatever you want, and twelve of your peers
- 23:23Speaker 9: will look the other way.
- 23:25Speaker 3: Again, this jury was shocking.
- 23:28Speaker 1: Taste of tales. When you say that Shawnkhm's supporters threatened you,
- 23:32Speaker 1: what were they saying.
- 23:34Speaker 9: They were saying, you B, you F and B. We're
- 23:37Speaker 9: going to kill you, you F and B. You've worked apparently,
- 23:40Speaker 9: I work for the fence. You're a plant. You make
- 23:43Speaker 9: this all up because of you. Again, they're not too smart,
- 23:46Speaker 9: because of you. That's how this case got started.
- 23:49Speaker 3: We're gonna treat.
- 23:49Speaker 9: You worse than we treated Cassie. Cassie, what we do
- 23:52Speaker 9: to you, it's gonna be nothing that they had on Cassie.
- 23:55Speaker 9: They were screaming, they were yelling. Some people were saying,
- 23:58Speaker 9: apologize the Diddy apologize Diddy, of course, thank goodness.
- 24:02Speaker 3: We had Lenny and we had Jimmy, two of the
- 24:05Speaker 3: best arm guards out there. So the one thing is
- 24:08Speaker 3: they and also they started foaming.
- 24:10Speaker 9: Like wild dogs because they realized that I was not
- 24:14Speaker 9: an unprotected woman, and they realized they could not just
- 24:17Speaker 9: do what they felt like, and they started foaming like
- 24:20Speaker 9: wild dogs, screaming, their voices cracking in anger that they
- 24:24Speaker 9: ricially wanted to rip me apart.
- 24:27Speaker 3: This is why their hero had been exonerated. Even in
- 24:30Speaker 3: the best of.
- 24:31Speaker 9: Times, these people that support him, there's something wrong with it.
- 24:35Speaker 9: And I gotta tell you, Nancy, it wasn't just me.
- 24:38Speaker 3: It was not just me.
- 24:40Speaker 9: It was anybody that did not have a that didn't
- 24:44Speaker 9: have a pro Diddy stamp from the beginning.
- 24:47Speaker 3: That's who suffered.
- 24:48Speaker 1: Joining me an all star panel that I want to
- 24:50Speaker 1: thank Tisa Tales for what she's doing tonight. You know,
- 24:56Speaker 1: Rob Sheeter is joining me.
- 24:58Speaker 7: Rob.
- 25:00Speaker 1: They don't know where to start. This is a blow.
- 25:02Speaker 1: This is a huge blow to crime victims all over
- 25:06Speaker 1: the country, huge blow. The big news is right now,
- 25:10Speaker 1: Sean Combs is going to jail. Okay, he's going to jail.
- 25:15Speaker 1: I was actually worried that somehow the judge would contrivet
- 25:19Speaker 1: the law. And the law is under the Bill Reform
- 25:21Speaker 1: Act that for these two charges on which he was convicted,
- 25:25Speaker 1: he has to go to jail. There is no appeal
- 25:28Speaker 1: bond period. But I was so concerned that the judge
- 25:33Speaker 1: would somehow find a way to let him walk. And
- 25:37Speaker 1: all this time, Shooter, we've been hearing. I've got all
- 25:40Speaker 1: these letters here. Here's one from deontaey Nash in fear,
- 25:44Speaker 1: in fear, talking about Combs's long, well documented history of
- 25:49Speaker 1: violent retaliatory behavior. They're afraid rob'shter. Guys, Shooter knows comes
- 25:58Speaker 1: better than any of us. His longtime publicist no more.
- 26:02Speaker 1: But now you can find him at his substack robshooter
- 26:06Speaker 1: dot substack dot com and Nony but nice podcast. Sheoter.
- 26:10Speaker 1: I got to tell you, it's like a kick in
- 26:12Speaker 1: the stomach when that split verdict came down.
- 26:14Speaker 14: Yeah, I think everybody was done before. Before I continue, then, Nancy,
- 26:18Speaker 14: I just want to send my best to Tisha. What
- 26:20Speaker 14: happened to her outside that courthouse. It's horrific, it's wrong,
- 26:24Speaker 14: and I'm afraid these people now have been emboldened because
- 26:28Speaker 14: their hero, their idol, Diddy looks like he is going
- 26:32Speaker 14: to walk free. So this morning when we heard the judgment,
- 26:35Speaker 14: I think we were all shell shocked, we were all heartbroken,
- 26:39Speaker 14: we all felt like we'd been kicked in the stomach. However,
- 26:42Speaker 14: as the day has gone on, we do have to remember, Nancy,
- 26:47Speaker 14: that he has been found guilty of two very serious charges.
- 26:52Speaker 14: If any other celebrity had been charged with those two charges,
- 26:56Speaker 14: those alone and being found guilty, we would be done
- 26:59Speaker 14: with them. So the celebration from Team Diddy, the disappointment
- 27:04Speaker 14: from people who've been watching this as closely as we have,
- 27:07Speaker 14: I think we can take a step back both sides
- 27:10Speaker 14: and realize that this is not a good day for Diddy.
- 27:14Speaker 14: He is now a federal criminal, is in jail tonight.
- 27:19Speaker 14: He's going to remain there until he is sentenced. And
- 27:22Speaker 14: so at least takes some solace in that.
- 27:25Speaker 1: You know, Rob Shooter, I've been getting flooded by crime victims,
- 27:31Speaker 1: victims from all walks of life that are upset. They
- 27:37Speaker 1: don't really sound mad, yet they're devastated, They're sad, they
- 27:42Speaker 1: can't believe this has happened. I've been already subjected to
- 27:47Speaker 1: a lot of attacks, verbal attacks, and I think what
- 27:52Speaker 1: Tisa tells has been subjected to already. But I give
- 27:57Speaker 1: the credit to the prosecutors for going in there. And
- 28:01Speaker 1: I truly believe this was a day of and Goliath,
- 28:04Speaker 1: and they went in against one of the highest profile
- 28:09Speaker 1: personalities in our country, Sean Comes, who many people think
- 28:15Speaker 1: that they know and they love him, and for some reason,
- 28:20Speaker 1: that blinded them, that drowned out everything that three sex
- 28:26Speaker 1: attack victims said. And one had the video? What had
- 28:32Speaker 1: the video? I just I don't get it. Rob Sheeter,
- 28:37Speaker 1: give me some insight and to how Sean Comes got
- 28:42Speaker 1: a split verdict. But yes, you're right, he is going
- 28:45Speaker 1: to jail on two felonies, two felonies. That's a victory
- 28:50Speaker 1: that Shawn Comes is going to jail.
- 28:52Speaker 7: Yeah, that's a victory.
- 28:53Speaker 14: We have to hadden on for that, Nancaid, because in
- 28:56Speaker 14: this moment, in this hour, there's not a lot of hope.
- 28:58Speaker 14: Everything so bad. We have let down not just the
- 29:02Speaker 14: people in this case, but victims around the world. Did
- 29:07Speaker 14: he now will be empowered. This is not the end
- 29:10Speaker 14: of the story, Nancy. When he gets out of jail,
- 29:13Speaker 14: if he gets out of jail, hiss behavior will not
- 29:18Speaker 14: change because he thinks he has gotten away with it. Again,
- 29:23Speaker 14: if you enable someone, Nancy, they do not change. So
- 29:26Speaker 14: mark my words, Nancy, this is not the end of
- 29:29Speaker 14: the did he story. It's the end of a very
- 29:31Speaker 14: very sad chapter. And I think we've let a lot
- 29:34Speaker 14: of people down. And as far as being concerned about safety,
- 29:37Speaker 14: I just broke reporting that Cassie has now increased her security.
- 29:41Speaker 14: Cassie in New York, her home now has security increased.
- 29:46Speaker 14: And I think a lot of other people, courageous people
- 29:49Speaker 14: who came forward assistance, people that worked with Didd He
- 29:53Speaker 14: came forward and testified. They're very vulnerable and they are
- 29:57Speaker 14: very very scared right now.
- 30:05Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace back to Tisa Tails joining us.
- 30:13Speaker 1: She had to be escorted by armed guards out of
- 30:15Speaker 1: the courthouse and leave the scene after she was mobbed
- 30:20Speaker 1: by Diddy fans. Explained to me what was happening outside
- 30:23Speaker 1: the courthouse. I understand that wasn't split verdict was announced.
- 30:28Speaker 1: The Diddy followers, the Diddy worshipers, went cray outside the courthouse,
- 30:33Speaker 1: actually dousing each other with baby oil and chanting.
- 30:37Speaker 3: They dows Day swarmed the circle. It looked like a
- 30:42Speaker 3: mush pit of depravity.
- 30:44Speaker 9: They were spraying baby oil on each other, jumping around,
- 30:48Speaker 9: feeling fantastic. One woman and a pair of Calvin kleinb
- 30:52Speaker 9: Breefe and Egra started jumping up and down, wiggling boy.
- 30:57Speaker 3: They sat there spraying baby o her and the crowd was.
- 30:59Speaker 16: Chanting yay, yay, yay go and hyping them up. It
- 31:03Speaker 16: was a monstrous ball of the parody depravity. When I say,
- 31:07Speaker 16: I was sickened. When I say, I shook my head.
- 31:11Speaker 9: And when I said, these are the peers, These are
- 31:14Speaker 9: the jury of the peers. And it makes me wonder
- 31:17Speaker 9: as a jury goes home and they look at the television.
- 31:19Speaker 3: Sets and they see what their decision costs and what
- 31:24Speaker 3: was on the line, it makes me wonder how can
- 31:28Speaker 3: they sleep at night?
- 31:30Speaker 9: It was absolute pandemonia in between the jumping up and
- 31:34Speaker 9: down with the baby oil woman willingly baby.
- 31:38Speaker 3: Oil being squirted on them, and everybody laughing and having a.
- 31:41Speaker 9: Time like Christmas had just come with Santa and the
- 31:45Speaker 9: twelve perverted Elves.
- 31:47Speaker 3: What happened after that was even more amazing.
- 31:49Speaker 9: Because while that was going on, there were little fires
- 31:53Speaker 9: everywhere of these bands of I don't know if they're
- 31:55Speaker 9: in cls, if they're idiots, what was going on looking
- 31:58Speaker 9: for anybody they had ever saw make anti Didty contest
- 32:03Speaker 9: and by anti Diddy?
- 32:05Speaker 3: According to film, it is pro justice.
- 32:08Speaker 9: They were going out their ways to make sure.
- 32:11Speaker 3: That everybody paid.
- 32:13Speaker 9: And again I said, this is what that jury costs us,
- 32:16Speaker 9: and let us know. It sent a message it's okay
- 32:19Speaker 9: to be depraved, it's okay to beat women, it's okay
- 32:22Speaker 9: to do drugs, it's okay to do whatever you want.
- 32:26Speaker 9: And that jury, that jury, when they gave the verdict,
- 32:29Speaker 9: signal that. Again I'm still coming to terms with how
- 32:32Speaker 9: the jury got to this thing.
- 32:34Speaker 3: God, this man was denied bail, Thank god.
- 32:37Speaker 1: Rob Sheeter, Is it true that you just published an
- 32:41Speaker 1: article that there is going to be a Sean comes
- 32:46Speaker 1: Diddy women's shelter for abused and beaten women. I guess
- 32:52Speaker 1: they could fill the whole thing up.
- 32:54Speaker 7: Yeah, Nancy.
- 32:54Speaker 14: So last night I hit the phones and thank you
- 32:57Speaker 14: for all the support you've been given my substats. And
- 33:00Speaker 14: so this morning I posted a story. I spoke to
- 33:02Speaker 14: three different did He insiders last night saying what's next?
- 33:06Speaker 7: What is he going to do?
- 33:07Speaker 14: I've reported about the comeback to it potentially with Kanye West.
- 33:11Speaker 14: What else does he plan to do? And all my
- 33:13Speaker 14: sources told me that he's going to use this moment
- 33:16Speaker 14: as a marketing opportunity. He is shameless. This is a
- 33:20Speaker 14: chance for him to bounce back. He thinks to be
- 33:23Speaker 14: bigger than ever and I can see him Nancy standing
- 33:26Speaker 14: outside a did He women's shelter, cutting the ribbon, saying
- 33:32Speaker 14: that he's a protector of women, he loves women. He's
- 33:36Speaker 14: going to flip this narrative. There are no concrete plans
- 33:39Speaker 14: for this yet, I point out in the story, but
- 33:41Speaker 14: it's just one of the options that did He and
- 33:44Speaker 14: his team are exploring. How can he bounce back, not
- 33:47Speaker 14: just in music, not just in fashion, but how can
- 33:50Speaker 14: he get his reputation back. Normally we see celebrities going
- 33:54Speaker 14: to rehab, remember that, Nancy, they always go off to
- 33:56Speaker 14: reab for a few weeks. I'm told did He's not
- 33:59Speaker 14: going to do that, but he's going to open up
- 34:01Speaker 14: potentially several different shelters for battered women around around the country.
- 34:07Speaker 14: This is something that is seriously Nancy being discussed.
- 34:10Speaker 11: Linn Shaw thoughts not going to happen, never going to happen.
- 34:16Speaker 11: He and his team can talk all they want, they
- 34:18Speaker 11: can spend millions of dollars on strategies, they can go
- 34:21Speaker 11: on every show, which I'm sure he will make his
- 34:24Speaker 11: you know, comeback tour being paid who knows how much money?
- 34:28Speaker 1: Protection sure to I'm not.
- 34:30Speaker 11: Even calling that because to me, he's dead. So there's
- 34:33Speaker 11: no resurrection with this degenerate. Okay, it's never going to happen.
- 34:38Speaker 11: If we at the Warriors have to get every warrior
- 34:40Speaker 11: we know to go out and stop this, we will
- 34:43Speaker 11: do it because you know what we know. He's all
- 34:46Speaker 11: you have to think about is that Cassie video. I
- 34:47Speaker 11: think the judge, even you know, with no bail, is like, no,
- 34:51Speaker 11: the Cassie video in his mind.
- 34:52Speaker 1: I'm not a mind reader. He is going to fall.
- 34:55Speaker 11: I maintain right now, things they may think are looking good.
- 34:59Speaker 11: I'm reminded everybody all day, yesterday and today, he's still
- 35:02Speaker 11: a convicted criminal. He's still sitting in jail. He's an offender.
- 35:07Speaker 11: Offenders don't change their stripes. He will come out eventually
- 35:11Speaker 11: and he will reoffend or do something worse. He's not
- 35:14Speaker 11: going to change. I maintain these shelters they talk about
- 35:18Speaker 11: it's going to be a nice pr stunt. It's not happening,
- 35:22Speaker 11: no way in hell under the Warrior's watch.
- 35:24Speaker 1: We're not allowing this.
- 35:25Speaker 17: It's so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in
- 35:30Speaker 17: your life.
- 35:31Speaker 7: Sometimes you got to do that. I was, I mean,
- 35:38Speaker 7: I hit.
- 35:38Speaker 17: Rock bottom, but I made no excuses.
- 35:42Speaker 3: My behavior on that video is inexcusable.
- 35:46Speaker 17: I take full responsibility for my ashes in that video.
- 35:51Speaker 7: I'm disgusted.
- 35:54Speaker 17: I was disgusted then when I did it.
- 35:56Speaker 7: I'm disgusting now. I went and I sought out professional help.
- 36:04Speaker 17: And to going to therapy. We're going to rehab. Had
- 36:10Speaker 17: to ask God for his mercy and grace. I'm so sorry,
- 36:23Speaker 17: but I'm committed to be a better managent every day.
- 36:27Speaker 7: I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm truly sorry.
- 36:34Speaker 1: Linn Shaw joining me from Lynn's Warrior. She's the founder
- 36:38Speaker 1: and executive director dedicated to ending sex trafficking and abuse
- 36:43Speaker 1: on girls and women. Okay, I've heard she asked for it.
- 36:48Speaker 1: It was her idea, she started it. It was consensual.
- 36:52Speaker 1: She's a slashed or, as an Agnifilo said in court,
- 36:59Speaker 1: She's a beautiful woman. She loves sex on and on
- 37:04Speaker 1: the same old stereotyped you've always heard, but this is
- 37:07Speaker 1: a new one. It was self defense. Sean Commes was
- 37:12Speaker 1: acting in self defense when he beat Jane blah blah blah, blah.
- 37:18Speaker 11: Blah, the same old playbook. Let's kick it to the curb.
- 37:22Speaker 11: First of all, I want to say something, a great
- 37:24Speaker 11: shout out to Tisa and to Rob stay safe. I
- 37:27Speaker 11: put out a statement on the Warriors about this right away,
- 37:29Speaker 11: with the verdict. I've been attacked relentlessly all day and
- 37:33Speaker 11: all night yesterday, and guess what by women women? So
- 37:37Speaker 11: what does this say about all of this? So now
- 37:40Speaker 11: you have a lawyer, a lawyer who's saying self defense.
- 37:43Speaker 11: I've heard this one before, Nancy, anything to blame the victim.
- 37:47Speaker 11: My concern here, though, is society is the justice system
- 37:52Speaker 11: itself not understanding accepting all of this. How come all
- 37:57Speaker 11: of those Diddy disciples attacking Tea and others. How come
- 38:01Speaker 11: they aren't in this frenzy to support victims, survivors, those
- 38:05Speaker 11: who testified. Why is it that there's this power over
- 38:10Speaker 11: this criminal, convicted criminal, this monster.
- 38:13Speaker 3: You know what?
- 38:14Speaker 1: That playbook is old.
- 38:15Speaker 11: These lawyers can say what they want. My concern here
- 38:18Speaker 11: also is that women are attacking me for putting out
- 38:21Speaker 11: what I am saying that he is. He got off
- 38:25Speaker 11: because they didn't prove sex trafficking and I don't know
- 38:27Speaker 11: what I'm doing. Well, you know what, everybody should walk
- 38:30Speaker 11: in my boots, come along with me with the warriors,
- 38:32Speaker 11: and do the work we do in the communities, and
- 38:35Speaker 11: they'll understand real quickly. These jurors, I wish I could
- 38:38Speaker 11: have taken all twelve of them on the road with me.
- 38:40Speaker 11: They would have convicted him of sex trafficking right away
- 38:44Speaker 11: because they have to see reality and they're blinded by
- 38:46Speaker 11: as Rob pointed out and Tisa, this star doest this wealth,
- 38:50Speaker 11: this power. But you know what, he's still at the
- 38:53Speaker 11: end of the day, a convicted criminal. He still is
- 38:56Speaker 11: in jail. We still have accounts against him, and he
- 39:00Speaker 11: will go down, maybe not right away, in the next
- 39:03Speaker 11: few years. He's going down joining me.
- 39:07Speaker 1: Troy Slayton, renowned defense attorney, joining us out of the
- 39:11Speaker 1: LA jurisdiction. Troy Slayton, Look, okay, you got a lot
- 39:16Speaker 1: of tricks in your magician's bag that you whip out
- 39:19Speaker 1: in front of jury's to get those not guilty verdicts
- 39:22Speaker 1: that you seem to get sadly frequently. But Troy Slayton,
- 39:27Speaker 1: in a case like this, have you ever seen the
- 39:31Speaker 1: defense argue self defense that the alleged rapist, the alleged
- 39:36Speaker 1: sex trafficker was acting in self defense. I didn't see
- 39:40Speaker 1: any pictures of bruises on Seawan Comes. All I saw
- 39:44Speaker 1: was him running up and down the halls of the
- 39:47Speaker 1: Intercontinental and nothing but a towel. And we now know
- 39:50Speaker 1: why he had the towel that he was clutching so desperately,
- 39:54Speaker 1: because he didn't want this to be seen on the camera.
- 39:58Speaker 1: That said, have you ever saying self defense used by
- 40:02Speaker 1: an alleged rapist or an alleged sex trafficker.
- 40:05Speaker 18: It's the job of the defense attorney, Nancy, to be
- 40:08Speaker 18: a zealous advocate for their client and to do everything
- 40:12Speaker 18: that they can within the framework of the law to
- 40:16Speaker 18: secure an acquittal or to.
- 40:18Speaker 7: Get the best possible deal.
- 40:19Speaker 18: Now, I'm not going to sit here and gloat just
- 40:23Speaker 18: because I got it right all along that the government
- 40:27Speaker 18: overcharged this case.
- 40:29Speaker 7: There was not an overreach.
- 40:31Speaker 1: Yes, you would never glow.
- 40:33Speaker 7: There was just not the great good.
- 40:36Speaker 1: He would never say I told you so. Oh quick, update,
- 40:40Speaker 1: where's Diddy right now? Oh, he's in jail. Okay, continue,
- 40:44Speaker 1: but not for much longer.
- 40:46Speaker 18: The sentencing guidelines for what is probably going to end
- 40:49Speaker 18: up being the most expensive prostitution trial in US history
- 40:53Speaker 18: is fifteen to twenty one months. So although he has
- 40:59Speaker 18: what we call maximum exposure of ten years on each count,
- 41:03Speaker 18: which if ran consecutively, would be twenty years, he's not
- 41:07Speaker 18: going to get that. The starting point for the judge
- 41:10Speaker 18: here is fifteen to twenty one months, not years, and
- 41:14Speaker 18: he's already got.
- 41:15Speaker 1: Starting points of credit and a nutshell. Unlike state court
- 41:19Speaker 1: where I prosecuted in felony superior court, where the judge
- 41:23Speaker 1: had great, great leeway and dependent on the state to
- 41:26Speaker 1: make a very convincing argument when it came to sentencing,
- 41:30Speaker 1: in federal court, there's something called the federal guidelines. The
- 41:34Speaker 1: sentencing guidelines. Why because federal judges number one, they're appointed
- 41:39Speaker 1: for life. They can do whatever they want to, just
- 41:41Speaker 1: like the US Supreme Court. Okay, life, in case you
- 41:44Speaker 1: didn't know, they're not realigned to You can't get thrown.
- 41:48Speaker 7: Out, can't get impeached.
- 41:52Speaker 1: Okay, you named five justices, name one justice? One justice
- 41:59Speaker 1: US Supreme Court since it's ever been impeached. Hearing nothing,
- 42:03Speaker 1: I'll continue forward. The sentencing guidelines are instituted because federal
- 42:07Speaker 1: judges across the country had wildly divergent sentences for this
- 42:12Speaker 1: same crime, and defense was starting to say, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
- 42:17Speaker 1: He got five years and you're giving me life. How
- 42:20Speaker 1: can that be? So the sentencing guidelines were put in
- 42:23Speaker 1: place to kind of corral the federal judges into behaving
- 42:27Speaker 1: and having a more consistent sentencing guideline. However, there are
- 42:32Speaker 1: an a nutshell, I'm not going to let Troy Slayton
- 42:36Speaker 1: give you a legal treatise on this. There are upward
- 42:41Speaker 1: and downward departures. And I know a lawyer now disbarred
- 42:46Speaker 1: that made a living of getting snitches behind bars to
- 42:50Speaker 1: make up stories to help get downward departures. Downward departures
- 42:55Speaker 1: are when you present the judge evidence to the defendants
- 42:59Speaker 1: faith favor that gets the judge to give a lesser sentence.
- 43:03Speaker 1: There are also exactly rancy departures.
- 43:06Speaker 18: It's called mitigating and aggravating actors. And that's what your
- 43:10Speaker 18: attorneys for Dinny are going to do. They're going to
- 43:13Speaker 18: say all the great things about him in order to
- 43:17Speaker 18: try and get the judge to downward, depart or deviate
- 43:20Speaker 18: from the sentencing guidelines. It used to be in this country, Nancy,
- 43:23Speaker 18: that the sentencing guidelines were mandatory. The judge was confined
- 43:28Speaker 18: to in this case the fifteen to twenty one months,
- 43:31Speaker 18: but that's no longer the case. Judge has why discretion
- 43:36Speaker 18: to sentence up to the maximum in this space.
- 43:38Speaker 7: But it's not going to happen.
- 43:39Speaker 18: Diddy is going to be out in a matter of months,
- 43:41Speaker 18: not years.
- 43:42Speaker 1: As we wait for what will no doubt be another
- 43:46Speaker 1: bond request, we stop to remember an American hero, Deputy
- 43:51Speaker 1: Sheriff Frank Bordinaro, Genesee County Sheriffs forty four, killed in
- 43:57Speaker 1: the line of duty after nineteen years of service, leaving
- 44:00Speaker 1: behind grieving wife now widow. Robin had two sons, Bryce
- 44:06Speaker 1: and Chase. American hero Deputy Sheriff Frank Bordinaro. Nancy Grace
- 44:12Speaker 1: signing off goodbye friend,