After nearly 30 days of trial, both the prosecution and defense teams involved in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ racketeering and sex trafficking trial have rested their cases.
Sean “Diddy” Combs won’t be testifying at his bombshell Manhattan trial, his lead attorney signaled Monday — revealing the mogul’s legal team isn’t planning on calling a single witness. Defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo told the judge that Combs’ attorneys would instead present jurors at the federal sex-trafficking trial with an array of evidence, that prosecutors have already signed off on. The shocking decision is an about-face from the Bad Boy Records founder’s purported plan as of last week to call at least three witnesses: two Combs Enterprises employees and a psychological expert. The burden to prove Combs’ guilt is fully on prosecutors and not on the hip-hop mogul, so the jury isn’t allowed to hold it against him if he doesn’t testify or call witnesses.