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Final phase of jury selection in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s sex-trafficking trial postponed

Judge accepted request from Combs’s attorneys due to concerns that jurors might drop out over the weekend

The final phase of jury selection for the racketeering and sex-trafficking trial of the hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has been postponed to Monday. Jury selection began on Monday, and nearly 100 potential jurors were questioned this week to assess their ability to be fair and impartial. Combs’s lawyers have said that the prosecutors are trying to criminalize sexual activity between consenting adults, asserting that any group sex was consensual.

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