The jury in Diddy's trial got a spicy break from the usual testimony Monday with prosecutors playing portions of some alleged "freak-off" videos -- but for the jurors' eyes only.
00:00The jury today is all about freak offs. The prosecution showed snippets of freak off videos yesterday. The defense quadrupled down and they are showing many, many minutes of various freak offs.
00:16In fact, the defense already today, the jurors have seen more than about 10 minutes of worth of freak off videos. It is interesting that obviously, like you said yesterday, the prosecution played these videos.
00:33But very short. Very short. But clearly, both sides have different reasons for showing these. And so the hard part here is no one in the courtroom gets to see what these videos are.
00:47Other than the jury. The jury is looking at monitors. They have headphones on. But no one in the gallery, none of the attorneys can see these videos.
00:56So it's hard to tell what it is, what content they're showing and for what purpose. But we know the main thing here is coercion.
01:05Well, I think either way. I don't know that it's coercion. Coercion on the prosecution side.
01:12Right.
01:12And that's what I'm saying.
01:13Consent on the defense side.
01:15Right.
01:15To show that there is coercion or that there isn't coercion.
01:18And here's the thing about it. The coercion is kind of the coercion is difficult because it's going to be somewhat hard, I think, to watch a video and say somebody is being coerced if they're in the throes of having sex.
01:33But I think the coercion is interesting because if you remember, there was testimony when Cassie, when Cassie was on the stand on redirect, she said, I was on an airplane with Diddy.
01:46And he said, if I don't have a freak off when we land in New York, he is going to release some of the freak off videos.
01:53So by looking at the video, it's not even so much you see coercion in the video.
01:59It's that, oh, that's the thing he would release if she doesn't have one.
02:04So that could be a form of coercion.
02:06Uh-huh.
02:06Yeah, absolutely.
02:08The prosecutors were only showing 30-second clips of about 11 to 12-minute videos.
02:14Today, the defense is showing the jurors other portions of these same videos, and jurors are seeing much longer portions today from the defense.
02:22And that's got to go to consent, right?
02:24I've got to imagine that that's why they want to show a longer thing.
02:28And the more they see, and the more they see Cassie or Jane into it, that's how that's going to be their takeaway.
02:36And I think this might be effective as far as it goes.
02:38If the jurors know that these are 11 to 12-minute segments, and they're just shown a 30-second segment from the prosecutors, they're going to think maybe this is cherry-picked to show a coercive moment or something that looks bad for Diddy.
02:51By showing longer portions, I think it's going to land with the jury that the defense is being open about these freak-offs and saying, here, look at them in context.
02:59Where do you see coercion in any of this?
03:01And I think that might actually be to the benefit of Diddy, and it might backfire on the prosecution showing just the snippets.
03:07So we have a producer in the courtroom, and I've got to say, this jury has been so impassive when they're listening to testimony, even watching the freak-offs, it was hard to gauge a reaction.
03:21Their reaction, at least yesterday, was not very emotive outwardly anyway.
03:30They held it in for the most part.
03:31There was one juror who giggled when the video first came on, still unclear why that would make it.
03:39It could have just been a nervous thing.
03:40It could have been a nervous thing.
03:41There was another juror who was watching fairly intently, we're told, looking into the monitor.
03:48And then there had been another description of a female juror who was kind of covering her face at times.
03:56But again, you—
03:58No outward gasps.
03:59No, I mean, they were prepared for this, right?
04:02They were told—
04:02I attribute this in part to that this is a New York jury.
04:05These are sophisticated people, maybe, that have been around the block a time or two.
04:09They live in a big city.
04:10It's going to be harder to shock them than if this took place, maybe, in a sort of, you know, middle-of-the-country kind of place where they're maybe not as used to this.
04:19Sorry, Derek.
04:20Nah, you're getting more thumbs down on that.
04:22Nope.
04:23Nope.
04:23Nope.
04:24I think they're just doing—I mean, they were prepared for it.
04:27They were told that you were going to see this kind of footage, and they—
04:30And you could just say no, but okay.
04:32Yeah.
04:33Okay, it was just a theory, and I don't know what you're saying no to, but if you don't buy it, that's fine.
04:37No, we don't like your theory, that's all.
04:39I think they're just being professional, as professional as they can be.
04:42And look, it's clearly salacious.
04:44I mean, there were people in the courtroom who were saying that there were moans bleeding through the headphones that you could hear, but clearly salacious.
04:53But that's not the point.
04:54I mean, the point, like you said, it's either coercion or consent.
04:57Right.
04:58Or it could be both.
05:00It could be that you're going to see different things in the video.
05:05And I honestly, if I'm a juror, how do you not—when the prosecution's showing one thing, then the defense shows, in your mind, you understand what's happening here.
05:14That they have, as Derek said, cherry-picked this.
05:16They've edited the portions that they think are going to show their side of this story better.
05:23And what we can tell you is—
05:25And the way the defense teed up this showing of the videos today was showing text between Cassie and Diddy, where Cassie comes off as loving, I miss you, I loved our time together.
05:35And they also showed the text that she said to him, I'm always down to freak off.
05:40So that's the way they set this up.
05:41It's getting away from the coercion.
05:43They say she was a willing participant.
05:45Right, right.
05:46And, again, we don't know, like, what is on those videos that they're trying to prove because nobody other than the jury gets to see it.
05:55I'm Toye C from Toronto.
05:57I think it's good that the jury is able to see these freak-off videos.
06:02But, like you said, it is a double-edged sword because it could be coercion.
06:07It could be in the side of the defense.
06:10But I just believe that it's showcasing who Diddy really is.
06:14And I just feel bad for that poor old lady that I read about in the article that was probably clutching her pearls, wondering what is going on while watching this video.
06:24But I feel like it is good that the truth is being told and people are actually seeing who he really is as a person, just in general, scope of things.
06:32Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you, it's fascinating that, you know, now everybody is on the outside not knowing what the jury is even seeing.
