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Diddy verdict

[dani_phantasma]

Good to know that as long as a rich man buys things for me and gets me deep under his thumb, he can get away with trafficking me./s

To say I am disappointed is... doesn't even begin to cover it. ughhhhh its so disappointing. I know he was guilty of SOME things but.. ffs..

i feel like the prosecution should have brought in an expert on methods of coercive control and abusive situations/domestic violence .

Re: Diddy verdict

[(Anonymous)]

On the bright side (okay, maybe not as bright today), apparently he still has dozens of civil lawsuits to deal with. Maybe they'll shake him down to the point where he can't afford to get away with anything else.

Re: Diddy verdict

[(Anonymous)]

He's guilty of some other charges and can still do time. Hopefully he does.

And is not pardoned by someone in the White House. :(

Re: Diddy verdict

[(Anonymous)]

trump would've probably pardoned him anyway. the best we can hope for is that this fucker does at least SOME jail time.

Re: Diddy verdict

[philstar22]

The thing is, the prosecution didn't actually prove the racketeering charges. So it makes sense the jury acquitted him of that. The prosecution has the burden to prove. And he's still probably looking at 20 years in prison on the charges he was convicted of.

Re: Diddy verdict

[(Anonymous)]

This. The jury is supposed to convict based on evidence, not vibes.

Re: Diddy verdict

[dani_phantasma]

I suppose you're right. I guess... I just. listened to the stories... and...while I felt certain things were shown (sex trafficking the women at the very least).... i guess people saw differently.

Re: Diddy verdict

[(Anonymous)]

Some of the evidence (sex trafficking) details were so hard to hear on the news, I can't i.agune how the jurors went through it! Maybe the burden of proof wasn't strong enough as well? IDK...I just don't want to blame jurors the verdict that they reached for because they did their job.

Kinda reminds me the time Casey Anthony got off (*cough* allegedly killed her daughter).

Re: Diddy verdict

[(Anonymous)]

You know, I had assumed that was a strategy rather than they truly thought he could be convicted on racketeering. Because for the racketeering, it seemed like they would be allowed to show patterns and connect everything which is maybe not something a judge would grant them the latitude to do if that wasn't one of the charges. I don't know if that's true or not, and I do think they would be perfectly happy if they could have convicted him on it. I mean, to me, it felt like more of a catch-all kind of charge than anything else.

Re: Diddy verdict

[dani_phantasma]

yeah you're right i guess i let my emotions get the better of me.

I'd been following the case via Rotten Mango's videos and...my heart just went out to the victims as I've known people near and close to me suffering from abuse and in my experience it feels like people were constantly ignoring that victims are not always neat and perfect that.. they do some things people won't like Say somethings. They're messy.

and it feels like the defense kept trying to use that messiness or their coping mechanisms to prove they consented to things.

Re: Diddy verdict

[(Anonymous)]

" it feels like the defense kept trying to use that messiness or their coping mechanisms to prove they consented to things"
I mean, yeah, that's their job and what they (likely generously) get paid for, so ...

Re: Diddy verdict

[(Anonymous)]

The prosecution did the biggest fumble yet because they tried to get Diddy on RICO but then focused their case on domestic violence and trafficking, which has nothing to do with RICO. They thought they could get a big fish and then forgot how to actually prove a RICO charge. Ffs.

Re: Diddy verdict

[(Anonymous)]

I think they got lazy. They saw that public sentiment was against Diddy and figured they could play to the jury's emotions and get the conviction based on "look what a bad guy he is -- how could he not be guilty?" And to be fair, that works a lot of the time. But other times, the jury actually understands what "proving guilt beyond reasonable doubt" means and acts accordingly.

Re: Diddy verdict

[(Anonymous)]

which is why I'm not blaming the jurors in this case even if the evidence still points to him. if jurors had reasonable doubt and the state couldn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt can I blame the jurors the conclusion that they reached? (answer: no) even though some of the evidence I heard in the news was really hard to hear.