Key moments from the closing arguments at Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sex trafficking trial
Defense personalizes the case for jurors, calling it attack on ‘your bedroom’
Agnifilo tried to cast the case for the jury as an attack on everyone’s bedroom and the secrets of one’s sex life.
“They go into the man’s bedroom. They go into the man’s most private life. Where is the crime scene? The crime scene is your private sex life. That’s the crime scene,” he said as he stood before jurors, who were largely expressionless as they took occasional notes and watched the closings.
The lawyer said it was not uncommon that Combs liked to film sexual events with his girlfriends, calling it “sort of typical, you know, homemade porn” and adding that “I don’t think by any stretch of the imagination this is the only man in America making homemade porn.”
Still, he said, investigators “take yellow crime scene tape, figuratively, and they wrap it around his bedroom. Crime scene — your bedroom, your hotel rooms, where you go with your girlfriends. Crime scenes. A lot of yellow tape.”
Then, he gave a nod to the 50th anniversary of the movie “Jaws,” resurrecting a classic line from Hollywood history when he said: “We need a bigger roll of crime scene tape, because that’s just not going to be enough.”
Judge agrees defense went too far saying prosecutors targeted Combs
Just after Agnifilo told jurors that it “takes a lot of courage to acquit,” he ripped the government’s case a final time in stark terms, saying the trial was “very different” from any other trial.
“I think that the evidence shows, and you can conclude, that the government targeted Sean Combs,” he said, noting that nobody complained to the government to instigate a probe, but investigators instead began their work a day after Cassie filed her lawsuit.
After the jury left the room at the conclusion of Agnifilo’s four-hour summation, his statement about targeting drew an outcry from the prosecutor, Slavik.
When the jury returned, Judge Arun Subramanian noted the remark Agnifilo had made about targeting Combs and told jurors that “the decision of the government to investigate an individual or the decision of a grand jury to indict an individual is none of your concern.”
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