Puff trial jury reaches ruling on all but the most major charge 

The jury in Sean “Diddy ” Combs ’ sex trafficking trial said Tuesday that it has reached a verdict on four of five counts against the hip-hop mogul and was unable to reach a decision on the top charge, racketeering conspiracy. But the results of any of the fees was not yet clear. The prosecutor told the jury to carry off announcing its limited conviction and instead to continue weighing the remaining cost. Like prosecutors and Combs ’ defense team, Judge Arun Subramanian reasoned that after just two days of deliberations, it was too soon to give up on reaching a verdict on all counts. The advancement came later Tuesday afternoon, when the judge sent a statement saying it was unable to achieve a unanimous verdict on the criminal plot cost because there were judges with “unpersuadable views ” on both sides. Proposed noted that courts have a right to provide a limited verdict, but he said that given that proceedings started just Monday, he’d instead they continue for today. The judge was finally dismissed for the day. Brushes ’ doctors surrounded him at the defense table immediately after the word was sent to the jury. The hip-hop tycoon appeared gloomy as they explained to him what was happening. At one level, lead defence lawyer Marc Agnifilo stepped away from the cluster, returned with a piece of paper and handed it to Combs, who read it firmly. Combs ’ mother and several of his babies returned to the court after the prosecutor announced that the judge had reached a partial conviction. Prosecutors, however, were at their desk glued to their devices and device servers. 1:20 Trump asked if he would ever consider a pardon for Sean ‘Diddy ’ CombsJurors are weighing charges that Combs used his fame, wealth and violence to force two girlfriends into drug-fueled sex marathons with male sex workers known as “freak-offs ” or “hotel nights. ” He has pleaded not guilty, and his lawyers contend prosecutors are trying to criminalize Combs ’ swinger lifestyle and that, if anything, his conduct amounted to domestic violence, not federal felonies. Combs, 55, was experience 15 years in prison to life behind bars if he is convicted of all expenses. Racketeering conspiracy — count 1 on the jury ’s verdict sheet — is the most complicated of the charges against Combs because it requires the jury to decide not only whether he ran a “racketeering enterprise, ” but also whether he was involved in committing some or all of various types of offenses, such as kidnapping and arson. The command falls under RICO— the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act— which is best known for being used in structured crime and drug gang instances. Earlier Tuesday, the judge asked to evaluate important testimony from one of the prosecution’s most critical witnesses: the hip-hop mogul’s past former girlfriend Cassie. The board of eight men and four people asked for Cassie’s accounts of Combs beating, kicking and dragging her at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016— an abuse captured on now-infamous security camera footage. 3:49 Diddy test: Ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura fought what ‘only the beast himself had had done’They also asked to see Cassie’s evidence about an event in which she said Combs accused her of taking drugs from him and kicked her out of their yacht at the Cannes Film Festival in France in 2013. On their way back to the U. S. , she said, he threatened to release explicit videos of her having sex. In addition, the jury asked for Cassie and stripper Daniel Phillip’s testimony about her jumping into his lap at a New York City hotel after, as Phillip testified, he suspected Combs had been slapping and slamming her around an adjacent room. Trending Now More Canadians avoiding U. S. goods, travel amid Trump trade war: poll Elon Musk slams Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill ’ — again — as Congress votes “ Her whole entire body was shaking, like she was terrified, ” said Phillip, who was at the hotel for a sexual encounter with Cassie sometime between 2012 and 2014. Phillip testified that he asked Cassie, the R& B singer whose real name is Casandra Ventura, why she was with Combs if he was hitting her and beating her. He said he told her she was in real danger. Cassie, he said, “basically tried to convince me that it was OK, it ’s OK. I’m fine, I’ll be OK. ”Phillip and Cassie were among the first witnesses who testified when the trial began last month. The jury ’s testimony request came soon after Combs ’ lawyers and prosecutors began the day haggling with Judge Subramanian over a jury question left over from the end of the first day of deliberations on Monday. Jurors wanted clarification about what qualifies as drug distribution, an aspect of the racketeering conspiracy charge that will help determine whether Combs can be convicted or exonerated on the count. 0:56 Sean ‘Diddy ’ Combs trial: Rapper Kid Cudi arrives to court to testifySubramanian said he would remind jurors of the instructions he gave them on that part of the case before they started deliberating on Monday. Combs ’ lawyers had pushed for a more expansive response, but prosecutors argued — and Subramanian agreed — that doing so could end up confusing jurors more. On Monday, the panel deliberated over five hours without reaching a verdict. Barely an hour into deliberations, the jury foreperson sent a note to the judge, complaining that there was one juror “who we are concerned cannot follow your Honor’s instructions. May I please speak with your Honor or may you please interview him? ”The judge sent jurors a note reminding them of their duties to deliberate and obligation to follow his instructions on the law. After pleading not guilty, Combs chose not to testify as his lawyers built their arguments for acquittal mostly through lengthy cross examinations of dozens of witnesses called by prosecutors, including some of Combs’ former employees who took the witness stand reluctantly only after being granted immunity. When jurors first left the room to begin deliberating on Monday, Combs sat for a while slumped in his chair at the defense table before standing and turning toward three rows of spectators packed with his family and friends.