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Judge Threatens To Bar Sean “Diddy” Combs From Courtroom If He Continues To Interact With Jurors

Sean "Diddy" Combs might be barred from his own trial if he continues to interact with the jury, the judge said in a potential bombshell moment.

With the jury absent, Judge Arun Subramanian warned defense attorneys in a sidebar that he might exclude the defendant from the Lower Manhattan courtroom if he continued to look, nod or make facial expressions at jurors, CNN reported. The admonition came after Subramanian said he saw Combs looking at and “nodding vigorously” toward the jury twice during today’s cross-examination of prosecution witness Bryana Bongolan, who had told the court Wednesday that the defendant had dangled her off a 17th-story balcony in 2016. Subramanian said that if there was any further juror interaction by Combs, he might instruct the jury about it and, potentially, consider barring the defendant from the courtroom.

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