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Diddy Trial: Defense Fires Back in Opening Statements | Full Breakdown & Key Arguments! · The Demia Avery Show

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