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BREAKING NEWS: Sean "Diddy" Combs VERDICT - NOT Guilty on Most Serious Charges · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news. Now. I'm Drew Nelson.
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  Speaker 1: Just into Crime Alert. The federal jury find Sean Diddy
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  Speaker 1: Combs guilty on two counts, but not guilty on three others,
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  Speaker 1: including racketeering. Combs was found guilty of transporting former girlfriends
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  Speaker 1: Cassandra Ventura and the anonymous woman identified as Jane across
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  Speaker 1: state lines to engage in prostitution, those violations of the
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  Speaker 1: Man Act. He was acquitted of sex trafficking charges related
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  Speaker 1: to both women. He was also found not guilty of
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  Speaker 1: racketeering conspiracy, which could have led to a life sentence.
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  Speaker 1: As the verdict was read, Combs nodded he said thank
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  Speaker 1: you to one of the jurors. He made a prayer
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  Speaker 1: hands gesture looking toward the jury. Fifty five year old
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  Speaker 1: Combs has been held without bail and Brooklyn since his
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  Speaker 1: arrest last September. He pleaded not guilty to all the
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  Speaker 1: charges over three days. The jury spent just over thirteen
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  Speaker 1: hours weighing the evidence. During trial, they heard from thirty
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  Speaker 1: four witnesses. Some were male escorts who said Combs paid
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  Speaker 1: them to take part in drug fueled sex parties he
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  Speaker 1: called free coffs other word Witnesses described threats and abuse
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  Speaker 1: at the hands of Combs. Prosecutors claimed he ran a
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  Speaker 1: long term criminal operation and used his fame to lure, trap,
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  Speaker 1: and silence victims. He faces a maximum of twenty years
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  Speaker 1: in prison for the two Man Act convictions. Stay with
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  Speaker 1: Drew Nelson.