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Prosecutors Accuse Defense of Humiliating Diddy Witness "Mia" | Crime Alert 6AM 06.03 .25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert, I may see grace breaking crime news now.
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  Speaker 1: Shawnkhim's lawyers push for a mistrial. The judge denied it.
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  Speaker 1: What else lies ahead in the testimony? Standing by our
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  Speaker 1: John Limley John, What's the latest?
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  Speaker 2: In Manhattan Federal Court? On Monday, the high profile sex
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  Speaker 2: trafficking and racketeering trial of Sean Ditty Combs entered a
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  Speaker 2: pivotal phase. The defense concluded its cross examination of Mia,
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  Speaker 2: a former assistant who has accused Combs of repeated sexual
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  Speaker 2: assault during her employment from two thousand nine to twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: Under intense questioning by defense attorney Brian Steele, Mia was
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  Speaker 2: presented with past social media posts and text messages that
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  Speaker 2: appeared to praise Combs, including a twenty nineteen message where
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  Speaker 2: she dreamed he rescued her from r Kelly. Steele suggested
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  Speaker 2: these communications undermined her allegations. Mia responded that such expressions
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  Speaker 2: were a coping mechanism, reflecting the psychological manipulation she endured.
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  Speaker 2: The defense further questioned MIA's credibility by highlighting the delay
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  Speaker 2: in her disclosure of the alleged abuse, noting she first
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  Speaker 2: met with prosecutors in January twenty twenty four, but only
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  Speaker 2: revealed her experiences in June of that year. Mia explained
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  Speaker 2: that control and isolation by Combs prevented her from confiding
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  Speaker 2: in others, including fellow accuser Cassie Ventura. Prosecutors objected to
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  Speaker 2: the defense's line of questioning, accusing Steel of humiliating the
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  Speaker 2: witness and potentially deterring other victims from testifying. While Judge A.
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  Speaker 2: Rum Submaranian disagreed that the questioning was inappropriate, he cautioned
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  Speaker 2: Steel on tone and repetitiveness of his inquiries. In a
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  Speaker 2: recent development, Combe's legal team filed a motion for a retrial,
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  Speaker 2: alleging that government leaks, including a twenty sixteen hotel surveillance
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  Speaker 2: fitte aired by CNN, have prejudiced the jury pool and
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  Speaker 2: deprived Combs of a fair trial. The prosecution denied any
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  Speaker 2: involvement in the leagues, labeling the defense's claims as baseless
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  Speaker 2: and an attempt to exclude damning evidence. Combs, who has
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  Speaker 2: pleaded not guilty to charges of racketeering, conspiracy, and sex trafficking,
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  Speaker 2: remains in custody at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center. If convicted,
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  Speaker 2: he faces a minimum of fifteen years to life in prison.
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  Speaker 3: John Limley, a leader and two members of a fringe
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  Speaker 3: group tied to multiple killings across three states, are now
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  Speaker 3: facing new weapons charges in Maryland. Jackals Soda, also known
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  Speaker 3: as ziz leads the so called Zizians, an extremist group
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  Speaker 3: linked to six deaths, including US Border Patrol agent David Milan,
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  Speaker 3: killed in a Vermont shooting in January. Lasota, Michelle Ziko,
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  Speaker 3: and Daniel Blank were arrested last month in Frostburg, Maryland,
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  Speaker 3: after a local resident reported them trespassing on his property.
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  Speaker 3: Initially charged with trespassing and obstruction, the trio now faces
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  Speaker 3: additional counts, including concealed firearm possession offenses carrying penalties of
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  Speaker 3: up to five years in prison. Investigators a guns purchased
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  Speaker 3: by Zycho were found at the scene of Milan's killing.
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  Speaker 3: Authorities also linked the Zizians to murders in California and Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 3: including the deaths of Zyko's own parents. The investigation is
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  Speaker 3: ongoing in Cleveland, an Ohio attorney accused in a decade
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  Speaker 3: old murder case as now facing new charges. Fifty one
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  Speaker 3: year old Gregory J. Moore pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder, kidnapping,
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  Speaker 3: and conspiracy in the twenty thirteen stabbing death of Eliza Sherman,
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  Speaker 3: a fifty three year old nurse and mother of four.
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  Speaker 3: Sherman was found stabbed more than ten times outside the
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  Speaker 3: downtown office where she was supposed to meet More to
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  Speaker 3: discuss her divorce just one day before trial. Prosecutor say
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  Speaker 3: More staged the attack to delay that trial, luring Sherman
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  Speaker 3: to the locked office than misleading investigators afterward. Moore, already
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  Speaker 3: convicted in twenty seventeen for lying to police and making
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  Speaker 3: bomb threats to delay other court cases, was arrested in
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  Speaker 3: May in Texas and extradited to Ohio. His bond two
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  Speaker 3: million dollars. Sherman's killing sparked years of public outcry and
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  Speaker 3: remembrance events. New Hampshire has agreed to a ten million
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  Speaker 3: dollars settlement with Michael Gilpatrick, who says he was raped
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  Speaker 3: and abused at a state run youth to ten T
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  Speaker 3: center in the nineteen nineties. Gilpatrick's lawsuit was set for trial,
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  Speaker 3: but was settled instead. His payout is four times the
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  Speaker 3: state's usual compensation for victims, but far less than a
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  Speaker 3: thirty eight million dollar jury award in a similar case
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  Speaker 3: last year, a verdict the state is fighting to reduce. Gilpatrick,
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  Speaker 3: now forty one, was fourteen when he was sent to
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  Speaker 3: the Youth Development Center in Manchester. His allegations led to
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  Speaker 3: criminal charges against four former staffers. Two have faced trial,
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  Speaker 3: One was sentenced up to forty years in prison, while
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  Speaker 3: another's case ended in a mistrial. The facility, now named
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  Speaker 3: for former Governor John H. Senunu, is set to close,
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  Speaker 3: with a smaller replacement planned. Since twenty nineteen, eleven former
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  Speaker 3: staffers have been arrested in connection with abuse claims, two
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  Speaker 3: have been convicted, and more trials are pending.
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