29 May 2025<\/time>\n <\/p>\nSean \u2018Diddy\u2019 Combs is being warned not to take the stand in his federal sex trafficking trial.<\/p>\n
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Sean \u2018Diddy\u2019 Combs is being warned not to take the stand in his federal sex trafficking trial<\/p>\n
The 55-year-old rapper\u2019s federal trial is continuing in New York, and has seen a series of big-name witnesses take to the stand so far too testify against the Bad Boy Records founder \u2013\u00a0and legal analyst Lisa Bonner has now insisted Combs giving his testimony during proceedings would open him up to questioning on a range of damaging allegations.<\/p>\n
She told Page Six: \u201cOnce you take the stand, everything you\u2019ve ever done \u2013 related to any of these alleged crimes \u2013 become fair game. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou are under oath and you can go to jail for\u2026 perjury, so you want to avoid taking the stand.\u201d<\/p>\n
Combs is on trial on charges including sex trafficking, racketeering and obstruction. <\/p>\n
\nHe has pleaded not guilty to all charges and faces life behind bars if convicted on all allegations.<\/p>\n
\nHis trial, now in its third week, has seen high-profile testimony from witnesses including his singer ex Cassie Ventura, 38, as well as rapper Scott Mescudi \u2013 known as Kid Cudi \u2013 and singer Dawn Richards.<\/p>\n
\nMs Bonner added Combs would be risking exposure to uncomfortable cross-examination if he also took the stand. <\/p>\n
\nShe said: \u201cThere is a lot of evidence that will be presented, even up until now, that I wouldn\u2019t want to answer if I was Diddy. <\/p>\n
\n\u201cFor example, \u2018Did you drop the Molotov cocktail in the car or did you have any involvement in that?\u2019\u201d she added, referring to a 2012 firebombing of Kid Cudi\u2019s car.<\/p>\n
\nMeanwhile, Combs\u2019 defence team have requested a mistrial.<\/p>\n
\nThey are alleging prosecutorial misconduct over the questioning related to the apparent destroying of evidence in the arson case involving a car belonging to Combs\u2019 fellow performer Kid Cudi.<\/p>\n
\nCombs\u2019 lead lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, has criticised the prosecution for making an \u201coutrageous\u201d suggestion his client could have been involved in the destruction of fingerprint evidence connected to the 2011 Molotov cocktail attack on Kid\u2019s Porsche. Mr Agnifilo argued the implication was unfairly presented to the jury during the cross-examination of arson investigator Lance Jimenez. <\/p>\n
\nLance had testified fingerprint evidence from the Molotov cocktail bottle was destroyed in 2012 without his knowledge, on orders from the Los Angeles Police Department, which was not part of his investigative team.<\/p>\n
\nAfter a brief recess and with the jury excused, Mr Agnifilo said the prosecution\u2019s remarks \u201cimplied that someone in this courtroom was responsible for the destruction of the fingerprint cards\u201d. <\/p>\n
\nHe urged Judge Arun Subramanian to declare a mistrial on grounds of prosecutorial misconduct, but the motion was denied. The judge agreed to strike the fingerprint evidence discussion from the record and instructed the jury to disregard it as irrelevant to the case.<\/p>\n
\nDay 11 of Combs\u2019 trial began on Wednesday (28.05.25) with testimony from a Los Angeles police officer who responded to the break-in at Kid Cudi\u2019s property in December 2011.<\/p>\n
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