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Comombs not guilty for racketering, sex trafficking
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Twelve gambles and six optional to be selected
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Judge questioned about 100 potential gamblers
By Jack Queen and Luke Cohen
New York, – A jury of 12 new Yorkers is to be selected in the racketering and sex trafficking trials of the hip -hop mogul scene “Didi” Comombs on Friday, who can face decades or even in jail when convicted.
The rapper requested not to be guilty in two cases of conspiracy, two cases of sex trafficking and two cases of transportation for prostitution – all hooliganism.
In three days this week, the judge, who oversees the case, questioned about 100 potential gamblers on the subjects in which he had heard about the case of combs and with any experience he had sexual harassment.
With the input of defense lawyers and prosecutors, American District Judge Arun Subramanian rejected the gamblers in Manhattan, which they unfit for serving and considered 45 candidates eligible to serve properly and fairly.
On Friday, the lawyers for each side will take the striking candidates until a panel of 12 gamblers and six options is chosen – a chess match with a possible decisive implications in the test results.
Comombs, a Harlem native, who founded the leading record label bad boy records and discovered iconic rapars including the notorious Big, was arrested last September and since then held in Brooklyn Federal lockup.
The allegations marked the surprising collapse of a Titan of the music industry, once a formal key for the city of New York and was known for throwing grand parties for A-list celebrities.
Prosecutors with the Manhattan US Attorney Office say that for two decades, Comombs used their business empire to woo women in their classroom with romantic relationships or financial assistance promises, then violently asked them to participate in sexual performance filled with drugs day-to-day, drugs, called “Freak Off”.
In the court papers, the prosecutors allege that Combes kept their victims drugs and blackmailed and kept obedient. He is accused of kidnapping a person at gunpoint, a molotov cocktail dropped into a car and back in the 1990s to kill victims in acts of violence, knees and pull.
Comombs lawyers have said that the prosecutors are improperly demanding a “swinger lifestyle” criminalization. He has indicated that he plans to attack the credibility of the alleged victims who would demand to show that they had a financial incentive to accuse Combes. He has said that women gave inconsistent accounts of alleged attacks to investigators.
Subramanian has said that the test will last for about eight weeks, unable to eliminate gamblers in terms of serving as backups with alternative gamblers. Any decision should be unanimous.
The test is expected to testify with three, or possibly four, including the former girlfriend of Comombs, Cassandra Ventura, a rhythm and blues singer, who is known as professional.
Comombs faced more than 50 civilian cases, accusing them of sexual harassment, including a even a plaintiff that says he was 10 years old at the time of the alleged attack.
Comombs refused to do wrong things in those cases and claimed that their accused are demanding a payday.
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