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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert, Imancy, Grace Breaking, crime News. Now over a
- 0:04Speaker 1: dozen celebrities names are dropped in the Shawn Combs multi
- 0:07Speaker 1: count federal indictment trial, but the only ones to take
- 0:11Speaker 1: the stand so far, Cassie Ventira, Dawn Rashard, and Kid
- 0:15Speaker 1: Cuddy none support the star Rapper. As the defense now
- 0:20Speaker 1: takes center stage, will the biggest star of all, Shawn
- 0:24Speaker 1: Combs aka Diddy himself take the stand? Standing by our
- 0:30Speaker 1: Sydney Sumner with the latest sid.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Inside a federal courtroom in Manhattan on Monday, prosecutors presented
- 0:37Speaker 2: jurors with portions of three sexually explicit videos said to
- 0:41Speaker 2: feature Shawn Combs and what witnesses have described as freak
- 0:44Speaker 2: off sex marathons. The clips, played only for jurors and
- 0:48Speaker 2: courtroom parties wearing headphones, came from a cell phone linked
- 0:52Speaker 2: to Combs and turned over by his former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura.
- 0:56Speaker 2: One video, dated October fourteenth, twenty twelve, was recorded the
- 1:00Speaker 2: same day Combs allegedly hosted a session with Cassie and
- 1:03Speaker 2: sex worker Charay Hayes, nicknamed The Punisher, at the Trump
- 1:07Speaker 2: International Hotel near Columbus Circle. Prosecutors also entered a hotel
- 1:11Speaker 2: invoice and texts arranging the encounter into evidence. Two additional
- 1:16Speaker 2: videos from twenty twelve and twenty fourteen were shown. Reactions
- 1:20Speaker 2: from the jury were mostly subdued, though at least one
- 1:23Speaker 2: juror winced Comb's attorneys maintained the footage shows only consensual sex.
- 1:28Speaker 2: Earlier in the day, Judge Arun Subermanian dismissed adjuror over
- 1:32Speaker 2: credibility concerns tied to inconsistent residency claims. The government is
- 1:36Speaker 2: expected to rest its case Wednesday, after six weeks of testimony.
- 1:41Speaker 2: Defense attorneys say their witnesses will follow.
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- 1:57Speaker 3: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news Crime
- 2:00Speaker 3: Online John Lemlay.
- 2:01Speaker 4: Two teenage brothers have been sentenced to twenty years in
- 2:04Speaker 4: prison for their roles in a drive by shooting that
- 2:07Speaker 4: killed a five year old girl in Albuquerque. The shooting
- 2:11Speaker 4: part of a surgeon violence in twenty twenty three led
- 2:14Speaker 4: New Mexico Governor Michelle Luhan Grisham to declare a public
- 2:17Speaker 4: health emergency, temporarily restricting guns in public parks and playgrounds.
- 2:23Speaker 4: Authorities say Galilea So Diego was sleeping in a mobile
- 2:26Speaker 4: home when the teens driving stolen vehicles open fire, targeting
- 2:31Speaker 4: another teenager inside. The shots struck Galilea in the head.
- 2:35Speaker 4: She died at a hospital. The brothers, ages fifteen and
- 2:39Speaker 4: nineteen at the time, were among five defendants who reached
- 2:42Speaker 4: FLEA agreements. Prosecutors in Bernalillo County say another suspect received
- 2:47Speaker 4: sixteen years, while two others received lesser sentences. Despite the
- 2:52Speaker 4: crackdown on crime, Albuquerque continues to see deadly violence involving juveniles,
- 2:58Speaker 4: leaving communities on edge. In Cleveland, an Ohio attorney accused
- 3:03Speaker 4: in a decade old murder case as now facing new charges.
- 3:06Speaker 4: Fifty one year old Gregory J. Moore pleaded not guilty
- 3:10Speaker 4: to aggravated murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy in the twenty thirteen
- 3:14Speaker 4: stabbing death of Eliza Sherman, a fifty three year old
- 3:17Speaker 4: nurse and mother of four. Sherman was found stabbed more
- 3:21Speaker 4: than ten times outside the downtown office where she was
- 3:24Speaker 4: supposed to meet More to discuss her divorce just one
- 3:28Speaker 4: day before trial. Prosecutor say More staged the attack to
- 3:32Speaker 4: delay that trial, luring Sherman to the locked office than
- 3:35Speaker 4: misleading investigators afterward. Moore, already convicted in twenty seventeen for
- 3:41Speaker 4: lying to police and making bomb threats to delay other
- 3:44Speaker 4: court cases, was arrested in May in Texas and extradited
- 3:48Speaker 4: to Ohio. His bond two million dollars. Sherman's killing sparked
- 3:53Speaker 4: years of public outcry and remembrance events. New Hampshire has
- 3:58Speaker 4: agreed to a ten million dollars settlement with Michael Gilpatrick,
- 4:02Speaker 4: who says he was raped and abused at a state
- 4:04Speaker 4: run youth detention center in the nineteen nineties. Gilpatrick's lawsuit
- 4:09Speaker 4: was set for trial, but was settled instead. His payout
- 4:12Speaker 4: is four times the state's usual compensation for victims, but
- 4:16Speaker 4: far less than a thirty eight million dollar jury award
- 4:20Speaker 4: in a similar case last year, a verdict the state
- 4:23Speaker 4: is fighting to reduce. Gilpatrick, now forty one, was fourteen
- 4:27Speaker 4: when he was sent to the Youth Development Center in Manchester.
- 4:31Speaker 4: His allegations led to criminal charges against four former staffers.
- 4:35Speaker 4: Two have faced trial. One was sentenced up to forty
- 4:39Speaker 4: years in prison, while another's case ended in a mistrial.
- 4:42Speaker 4: The facility now named for former Governor John H. Senunu
- 4:46Speaker 4: is set to close, with a smaller replacement planned. Since
- 4:50Speaker 4: twenty nineteen, eleven former staffers have been arrested in connection
- 4:55Speaker 4: with abuse claims, two have been convicted, and more trials
- 4:58Speaker 4: are pending.
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- 5:13Speaker 3: With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.