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Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, Breaking crime news Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sumner. Just a month before the scheduled start

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Speaker 2: of his trial, Sean Diddy Combs is slapped with a

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Speaker 2: third indictment. The new document adds two new counts of

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Speaker 2: sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and transportation to

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Speaker 2: engage in prostitution. The additional charges center on victim two,

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Speaker 2: who prosecutors say Combs recruited, harbored, and transported for the

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Speaker 2: purposes of coarse commercial sex acts between twenty twenty one

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Speaker 2: and twenty twenty four. The additional charges could spell more

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Speaker 2: jail time for Combs if convicted. Combs pleads not guilty

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Speaker 2: to the new charges, his legal team contending the allegations

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Speaker 2: are not new. His defense claims the accusers remain the

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Speaker 2: same former long term girlfriends who engaged in a consensual

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Speaker 2: sexual relationship with the rapper. Combs insists the escapades that

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Speaker 2: prosecutors referred to as freak offs were not coerce commercial acts,

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Speaker 2: but joint decisions between a romantic couple to bring up

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Speaker 2: partners into their bed. Combs claims the freakoff tapes prosecutors

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Speaker 2: plan to submit his evidence will clearly show all parties

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Speaker 2: our active and eager participants. Despite Combe's insistence those tapes

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Speaker 2: will show consensual, albeit non traditional sex, his defense team

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Speaker 2: is trying to ensure jury members will not feel squeamish

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Speaker 2: when they review them as evidence. Our friend Dave Mack

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Speaker 2: has the details.

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Speaker 3: Comb's defense team has also asked the judge to allow

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Speaker 3: potential jurors to fill out a questionnaire rather than participate

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Speaker 3: in verbal vadir. The attorney's claim potential jurors may be

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Speaker 3: more candid about their connections to the sensitive trial topics

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Speaker 3: if they do not have to speak about the issues directly.

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Speaker 3: Some of the questions reportedly pertain to potential jury's willingness

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Speaker 3: to watch sexually explicit videos and videos that depict physical assault,

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Speaker 3: as well as their opinions on people with multiple sexual partners.

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Speaker 3: The questions indicate jurors may be shown the infamous Freakoff tapes.

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Speaker 2: However, prosecutors immediately take issue with the lawyer's seventy questions draft,

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Speaker 2: claiming the questionnaire must be more concise and focus only

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Speaker 2: on four cause challenges. Jurors aren't the only people in

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Speaker 2: the courtroom who might feel uncomfortable with prosecutors fighting to

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Speaker 2: protect the witnesses who will testify against the rap giant

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Speaker 2: in court. Take a listen to Holden Zapple.

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Speaker 4: Prosecutors have asked Judge Arun Subermanian to allow witnesses two, three,

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Speaker 4: and four to remain anonymous on the stand. Prosecutors are

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Speaker 4: concerned that, due to the nature of their testimony, asking

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Speaker 4: the witnesses to use their real names would lead to

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Speaker 4: significant embarrassment, anxiety, and social stigma, as well as harassment

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Speaker 4: by the press. Prosecutors say the witnesses are also worried

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Speaker 4: their testimony will affect their personal relationships and future employment opportunities.

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Speaker 2: Victim one, identified as Cassi Ventura from the allegations in

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Speaker 2: her now settled lawsuit against Combs, plans to testify under

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Speaker 2: her name in court, confirmed by a federal filing. Ventura

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Speaker 2: has been closely connected to the criminal case ever since

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Speaker 2: her explosive November twenty twenty three civil filing, which comb

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Speaker 2: settled outside of court less than twenty four hours later.

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Speaker 2: Many believe Ventura's bravery led to the mogul's public downfall,

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Speaker 2: with at least fifty others having now filed lawsuits with

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Speaker 2: similar accusations. More crime and Justice news after this.

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Speaker 1: How could a beautiful, young first grade teacher be stabbed

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Speaker 1: twenty times, including in the back, allegedly die of suicide? Yes,

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Speaker 1: that was the medical examiner's official ruling after a closed

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Speaker 1: door meeting, he first named it a homicide. Why what

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Speaker 1: happened to Ellen Greenberg? A huge American miscarriage of justice?

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Speaker 1: For an in depth look at the facts, see what

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Speaker 1: Happened to Ellen on Amazon. All proceeds to the National

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Speaker 1: Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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Speaker 2: The four alleged victims enumerated in the latest indictment against

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Speaker 2: Shawn didty Combe's are not the only witnesses who will

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Speaker 2: testify for the government. Jackie Howard breaks down another element

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Speaker 2: of the case against Comb's.

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Speaker 5: As Shawn Coombe's trial looms closer, new filings give a

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Speaker 5: closer look at the fed's case against Shawn Comb's. Prosecutors

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Speaker 5: plan to introduce testimony from dozens of witnesses to show

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Speaker 5: the rap mogul's alleged pattern of sexual abuse facilitated by

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Speaker 5: his numerous businesses. Prosecutors say the testimony powerfully establishes that

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Speaker 5: the defendant made no mistake when he coerced other victims

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Speaker 5: into unwanted sex, and that it will prove the defendant

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Speaker 5: intended to take the sexual gratification he wanted, regardless of consent.

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Speaker 2: Combe's defense, of course, is trying to keep all testimony

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Speaker 2: regarding prior bad acts out of the courtroom, claiming prosecutors

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Speaker 2: are attempting to show the jury an inaccurate horror show.

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Speaker 2: Combe's attorneys say all but one of the witnesses will

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Speaker 2: testify to untested, uncorroborated, and uninvestigated alleged incidents that occurred

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Speaker 2: more than twenty years ago, and while some of those

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Speaker 2: allegations are demonstrably false, it will require an enormous amount

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Speaker 2: of trial time to disprove them. In a filing opposing

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Speaker 2: the testimony, the lawyers demand that the government should only

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Speaker 2: try the case it charged and prosecutors should not be

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Speaker 2: allowed to pollute the trial with decades of dirt. While

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Speaker 2: it seems that all parties are making final preparations for trial,

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Speaker 2: it is unclear whether the trial will beget on time.

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Speaker 2: Currently scheduled for May fifth, coinciding with one of Combe's

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Speaker 2: favorite events, the met Gala, the defense is hinted they

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Speaker 2: will ask for a two week delay as they do

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Speaker 2: their best to wade through mountains of discovery. The defense

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Speaker 2: has already won a ruling from Judge Subermanian on one issue.

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Speaker 2: In particular, he determined the government made an error only

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Speaker 2: turning over a witness's relevant emails, and order the defense

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Speaker 2: receive all two hundred thousand messages, which must be reviewed.

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Speaker 2: Holmes will likely spend the remainder of his pre trial

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Speaker 2: detention at the MDC wading through discovery materials with his

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Speaker 2: defense team featuring two brand new members. Will Combs remain

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Speaker 2: behind bars or clear his name for Nancy and her

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Speaker 2: expert guest's opinions. Tune into Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 2: at six or nine pm Eastern on Doctor Phil's Merritt

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Speaker 2: Street Media, or listen to Crime Stories on your favorite

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Speaker 2: podcast app with this crime Alert. I'm Sidney Sumner