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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Jury Deadlocked on Racketeering Conspiracy Count

And tensions are rising.

Sean “Diddy” Combs had kind words for his mother as jury deliberations in his Manhattan federal court sex-trafficking trial entered a second day on Tuesday. Before this exchange, lawyers on the case and Judge Arun Subramanian discussed how to answer a jury note from 4:30 p.m. on Monday that asked whether drug distribution — one of the underlying offenses in the racketeering conspiracy count — included giving someone drugs if they asked for them. Subramanian appeared to grow annoyed with Combs’s defense team during this discussion, cutting them off with a terse “hold on” comment several times.

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