While plaintiffs and police attempt to serve codefendants regarding accusations against Diddy, slower court updates resulted in a lot more speculation. For example, TMZ recently released their "His Defense" expansion of their documentary, The Downfall Of Diddy, in which they spoke to Dr. Phil and Jo-Ellan Dimitrius, the defense's jury consultant in the O.J. Simpson trial. The TV personality, on the other hand, reportedly has a lot of experience as a jury consultant. They spoke on how jury selection could be the most important factor in Sean Combs' freedom or incarceration, with Phil emphasizing open-mindedness for jurors.
Additionally, Dimitrius also found it necessary to highlight the need for jurors to feel comfortable talking about sex and sexuality openly, with both talking heads also addressing issues of diversity. This TMZ doc also suggested Diddy's race plays a key factor, as his attorney Marc Agnifilo believes this is a crucial reason as to why federal officials went after him. The two aforementioned jury consultants chimed in with the different roles that gender will play in jury selection, another factor for which they believe the court must seek balance.
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However, that was not the most interesting part of this TMZ doc when it comes to this speculative hypothesizing around the racketeering and sex trafficking case. The production team also assembled a mock jury for Diddy with a verdict, which was a guilty one. Of course, this means nothing in the face of an actual jury process and collections of evidence, which will go down later this year. If anything, these discussions around the trial just prove the public interest in it and how it attempts to reach conclusions before we can actually validate them.
Meanwhile, more civil lawsuits and assault claims continue to come forward against Diddy, which certainly do not help his public image. All we hope for is more attention and discussion around what's actually going on in the criminal trial rather than exclusively discourse, which we are of course not blasting in and of itself. These are important conversations to consider, especially for those folks who would not have looked into cases like these if not for this example's gargantuan scandal.
