Diddy demands a mistrial? Deets inside

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has submitted a missive to Judge Arun Subramanian claiming that the authorities wants to get escaped of 1 of the African-American jurors lone due to the fact that of the race, and that helium wants a mistrial if the justice bangs his gavel for the dismissal.

What happened with the juror?

One of the jurors successful the high-profile lawsuit with intersexual harassment lawsuit of Diddy is being considered to look dismissal from the tribunal owed to conflicting statements astir residency, raising concerns astir the information and honesty that the assemblage should hold. Juror fig 6, the 41-year-old African-American man, claimed helium lived successful a New York flat during the weekdays. However, the statements changed to being relocated to New Jersey to enactment with his girlfriend, and astatine different times, helium claimed to person been surviving with his woman oregon aunt successful the Bronx.

Diddy demands a mistrial...

Diddy submitted a letter, stating that the tribunal whitethorn judge the prosecutor's judgment, but the authorities wants “to instrumentality vantage of an accidental to onslaught yet different achromatic antheral from the jury." Furthermore, helium has claimed that the inconsistent answers astir residency bash not marque the antheral unfit to service connected the jury, according to TMZ. While the justice had made up his caput to bid the dismissal aft the grounds emerged, the defendants deliberation the determination is unjustifiable.

Diddy has argued that if the tribunal dismisses the juror, radical of colour would not service connected the assemblage successful the future. This is the 3rd clip that the Bad Boy Records laminitis has asked for a mistrial successful the peculiar case. According to the assorted reports, retired of 12 jurors, 8 are radical of colour. The Daily Mail reports that 5 are African-American successful the jury. In the trial, the rules would beryllium followed arsenic fixed by the New York State, and the tribunal has the authorization to regenerate immoderate juror who violates the rules.