Diddy on Trial Week 1: Cassie: US v. Sean Combs, Part IIIInner City Press - Biography & Autobiography The Diddy Trial Begins Sean Combs is dressed up in a sweater and has nine lawyers. Cassie Ventura is eight and a half months pregnant, sitting in the witness box, being asked to read her own text messages setting up freak offs, many with an escort named Jules. Videos are shown to the jurors, who wear headphones, but not to the public or the press. Likewise, both sides lawyers talk about filings to Judge Arun Subramanian that are nowhere to be found in the public docket on PACER. I have been covering the case since the indictment. In fact, I reported the presentment the night before it happened. But now the trial has taken over the courthouse, and both sides of Worth Street out in front of it. It is troubling that there is no other way. I file a challenge to the confidentiality, first by email to the judge and parties, then into the docket. And I live tweet as fast as I can, and respond to as many question as possible. Some other accounts simply steal the tweets; one site spoofs mine and bring Nicki Minaj into the mix. (As I'm requested, I sent out a clarifying tweet, but decline to sue. Have I told you I don't like lawsuit? Even as I appeal sealing in the OneCoin crypto case to the Second Circuit). After my second book about the Diddy case was blocked on one platform, I moved the second to another platform, which now also has this third, which covers week one. What will come next? Watch Inner City Press. |
