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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 1: Thanks John for the latest crime and justice news. Go

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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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Speaker 1: to find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides.

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