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Sean Combs Doesn’t Testify, Rests Case in Under 30 Minutes

Sean Combs' lawyers only took 30 minutes to present their case as closing arguments are set to begin later this week.

At one point, Judge Subramanian noted defense lawyer Nicole Westmoreland’s intense cross of Ventura’s friend Bryana “Bana” Bongolan, who claimed Combs dangled her off a 17th floor balcony. He said Westmoreland scored a “real Perry Mason moment” when sheoffered evidence that Combs was not in Los Angeles during the time frame Bongolan gave as the date of the alleged incident. In her opening statement last month, Geragos said the two women at the heart of the sex trafficking charges, Combs’ ex-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura and a woman using the pseudonym “Jane,” were not victims.

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