Judge threatens to remove Combs, defense accuses witness of lying

Santos solely testified briefly about extracting knowledge from cellphones, together with deleted messages. In a single such message from Cassie Ventura’s cellphone, Ventura knowledgeable Combs Enterprises chief of workers Kristina Khorram in regards to the 2016 incident when he allegedly dangled a girl over the balcony.

Ventura implied that she did not witness the alleged assault however appeared to imagine it actually occurred.

“That is loopy,” Ventura wrote, based on the textual content messages admitted by Santos. “I’ve to remain away.”

The textual content message might bolster Bongolan’s testimony and assist prosecutors push extra of the case away from Combs personally, and nearer to his firm and a attainable act of racketeering.

Enrique Santos, an investigative analyst for the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace, was referred to as the witness stand.

He is an skilled at pulling knowledge from cellphones, tablets and different units with GPS expertise.

Courtroom artist Jane Rosenberg, who has had her eyes and binoculars on Combs for greater than a month, tells NBC Information that Combs has been making facial expressions at jurors for the reason that begin of the trial.

Combs has been making an attempt to work together with varied members of the jury, each affirmatively and negatively relying on the testimony, Rosenberg mentioned. A number of NBC reporters and producers have witnessed the identical.

Decide Subramanian threatened to kick Combs out of court docket for allegedly flashing facial expressions at jurors.

Combs was nodding and searching on the panel throughout current testimony which is “completely unacceptable,” Subramanian admonished.

Subramanian requested protection lawyer Marc Agnifilo if this could occur once more.

“No your honor, it isn’t going to occur once more,” Agnifilo replied.

An animated Subramanian made admonished the protection, saying, “This can not occur once more.”

Cassie Ventura’s good friend completed her testimony within the wake of Combs’ facet accusing the witness of mendacity.

The protection implied in questions that Bongolan could not have been dangled over an L.A. balcony in 2016 as a result of Combs was in New York Metropolis at the moment.

Combs’ lawyer additionally accused Bongolan of suing Combs as a result of it was her alternative to turn into a millionaire. However Bongolan held agency on the stand, saying she was telling the reality: “I care about justice.”

Bongolan left the witness stand and Decide Subramanian declared the court docket to be in recess till not less than 1:30 p.m. ET.

Bongolan mentioned she has “little question” that Combs dangled her over a balcony edge and mentioned she needed to testify “to hunt justice.”

She mentioned that though she doesn’t keep in mind each single element, there are moments she’s going to always remember.

“I’ll always remember him holding me on that balcony,” she mentioned, telling the court docket that she was “terrified.”

The protection insisted Combs was in New York Metropolis on the day that Bongolan claimed she was dangled over a balcony in Los Angeles.

Combs’ lawyer, Westmoreland, confirmed a resort receipt that appeared to indicate her shopper was on the Trump Worldwide Resort & Tower in Manhattan between Sept. 24 and Sept. 29 in 2016.

Bongolan claimed she suffered accidents when Combs dangled her over the balcony of Ventura’s L.A. condo on or round Sept. 26.

And in a dramatic showdown, Westmoreland mentioned: “You got here in right here and lied to the jury, is not that true?”

Bongolan replied: “I can not agree with you.”

Bongolan testified that she continued to hold round Combs after he dangled her over a balcony edge as a result of she was “attempting to be cool” with him.

Bongolan testified she returned to Cassie Ventura’s condo inside two weeks of Combs allegedly dangling over a balcony edge.

Ventura invited Bongolan again to her place for an in a single day keep of consuming, smoking and cooking, a textual content message chain confirmed.

Bongolan admitted she mentioned sure and returned to the scene of Combs’ alleged assault on her.

The protection’s cross-examination appears to both dispute or minimize the alleged dangling incident by displaying Bongolan didn’t seem apprehensive about returning to that locale.

Combs’ protection returned to a standard chorus of cross-examination, reminding witnesses they stored socializing with him even after claiming they’d been victimized by the music mogul.

Bongolan admitted to protection lawyer Westmoreland that she shared a blunt with Combs following the alleged balcony incident.

However Bongolan insisted she was attempting to take care of far with Combs.

Bongolan was requested a few lawsuit her attorneys filed claiming she was sexually assaulted by Combs.

She mentioned she was conscious of the declare. When requested if she thought the one solution to file a lawsuit was to say Combs had sexually assaulted her, Bongolan mentioned: “I do not recall.”

Bryana Bongolan mentioned a number of the allegations made by her lawyer, Tyrone Blackburn, towards Combs had been incorrect, together with a declare that he grabbed her breast so exhausting he left bruises.

Bongolan mentioned she didn’t keep in mind all of the claims made by Blackburn, however advised protection lawyer Nicole Westmoreland that a few of them had been “incorrect.”

Combs’ attorneys continued the identical technique as yesterday, calling into query Bongolan’s reminiscences of the alleged 2016 dangling incident.

When protection lawyer Nicole Westmoreland identified that she had beforehand mentioned Cassie Ventura witnessed the incident, Bongolan responded with, “I do not recall.”

Bongolan additionally mentioned she suffered from nightmares from the incident, at the same time as lately as a number of days in the past.

Bryana Bongolan testified that she continued to do medication and affiliate with Cassie Ventura even after when she says she was threatened by Combs.

When requested if she was scared, Bongolan responded: “I assume not.”

Jurors entered the court docket and witness Bryana Bongolan returend to the stand for continued cross-examination by protection lawyer Nicole Westmoreland.

With the late begin this morning, U.S. District Courtroom Decide Arun Subramanian reminded jurors that the lunch break would come later than regular and will likely be shorter.

Combs intently watched the jury in court docket yesterday after they first took their seats and was attentive throughout testimony. A lot of yesterday was spent taking a look at safety footage and cellphone movies, and he peered on the monitor earlier than him.

Afterward, a Combs accuser who will go by the pseudonym “Jane” is expected to begin multiple days of testimony. Jane, who was identified as “Victim-2” within the prosecution’s indictment, was allegedly engaged in business intercourse acts “on account of power, fraud or coercion.”

Bryana Bongolan, a friend of Combs’ former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, testified yesterday about an alleged terrifying second involving the music mogul in September 2016.

Bongolan mentioned she was sleeping on the sofa at Ventura’s Seventeenth-floor Los Angeles condo when Combs banged on the door. She testified that she went out to the balcony to smoke marijuana, and Combs, who had gotten inside, “got here behind me and lifted me up and had me on high of the rail.” Combs allegedly held her for about 10 to fifteen seconds, she mentioned, and “for a second, I believed I used to be going to fall.”

She mentioned that Combs was yelling at her on the time and that she didn’t know why.

In one other a part of her testimony, Bongolan mentioned, Combs allegedly advised her one thing alongside the strains of, “I’m the satan and I can kill you.” She testified that Combs had taken cocaine on the time he made the feedback.