{"id":116868,"date":"2025-04-28T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/28\/sean-combs-is-going-to-have-an-uphill-battle-with-finding-an-impartial-jury\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T00:03:00","slug":"sean-combs-is-going-to-have-an-uphill-battle-with-finding-an-impartial-jury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/28\/sean-combs-is-going-to-have-an-uphill-battle-with-finding-an-impartial-jury\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Combs Is Going To Have An Uphill Battle With Finding An Impartial Jury"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rappers have a long history of making outlandish claims about how much staying power their careers will have. One of the boldest happened on Biggie\u2019s 1997 hit \u201cMo\u2019 Money Mo\u2019 Problems.\u201d On it, Sean Combs nonchalantly delivered a huge flex: 10 years from now, we\u2019ll still be on top. As it turned out, all of that bravado was ultimately an understatement: Bad Boy and Sean Combs are still household names almost 30 years later. And while that longstanding degree of fame and notoriety is great for moguls playing the long game, it\u2019s a horrible proposition for prosecutors trying to form an impartial jury for Combs\u2019s trial. Reuters<\/a> has coverage:<\/p>\n

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On Monday, with his criminal trial on sex trafficking charges just weeks away, Combs\u2019 lawyers will start their search for jurors who have not yet made up their minds about the artist and entrepreneur once known as \u201cPuff Daddy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hundreds of New York residents who have been summoned for jury duty will arrive at the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan this week to fill out questionnaires asking them what they already know about the case. It is the first step toward seating a panel of 12 jurors and six alternates that will determine Combs\u2019 fate after a trial expected to last eight to 10 weeks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It would have been hard enough to hear this case in Wyoming, but New York? While they\u2019ve definitely lost some steam over the years, Bad Boy still stands as one of the most influential record labels in hip-hop<\/a>. Combs also has a lot of infamy wrapped up in that fame \u2014 many people have long been suspicious of his alleged involvement in both Biggie<\/a> and 2Pac\u2019s<\/a> murders, not to mention a whole slew of strong-arming attached to his name, like allegedly firebombing Kid Cudi\u2019s car<\/a>. And if those associations with violence weren\u2019t enough, King Troll 50 Cent has done his fair share of dragging what was left of Combs\u2019s name through the mud whenever possible:<\/p>\n

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The only way Brian Steel and company<\/a> are going to get a neutral jury is if they strike any juror who\u2019s listened to rap music or been on YouTube for the last 10 years from the pool. Good luck with that.<\/p>\n

How Will The Jury Be Chosen For Sean \u2018Diddy\u2019 Combs\u2019 Sex Trafficking Trial?<\/a> [Reuters]<\/p>\n

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s<\/a>. \u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim,\u00a0is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0cwilliams@abovethelaw.com<\/a>\u00a0and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Sean Combs Is Going To Have An Uphill Battle With Finding An Impartial Jury<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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(Photo by Shareif Ziyadat\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rappers have a long history of making outlandish claims about how much staying power their careers will have. One of the boldest happened on Biggie\u2019s 1997 hit \u201cMo\u2019 Money Mo\u2019 Problems.\u201d On it, Sean Combs nonchalantly delivered a huge flex: 10 years from now, we\u2019ll still be on top. As it turned out, all of that bravado was ultimately an understatement: Bad Boy and Sean Combs are still household names almost 30 years later. And while that longstanding degree of fame and notoriety is great for moguls playing the long game, it\u2019s a horrible proposition for prosecutors trying to form an impartial jury for Combs\u2019s trial. Reuters<\/a> has coverage:<\/p>\n

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On Monday, with his criminal trial on sex trafficking charges just weeks away, Combs\u2019 lawyers will start their search for jurors who have not yet made up their minds about the artist and entrepreneur once known as \u201cPuff Daddy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hundreds of New York residents who have been summoned for jury duty will arrive at the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan this week to fill out questionnaires asking them what they already know about the case. It is the first step toward seating a panel of 12 jurors and six alternates that will determine Combs\u2019 fate after a trial expected to last eight to 10 weeks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It would have been hard enough to hear this case in Wyoming, but New York? While they\u2019ve definitely lost some steam over the years, Bad Boy still stands as one of the most influential record labels in hip-hop<\/a>. Combs also has a lot of infamy wrapped up in that fame \u2014 many people have long been suspicious of his alleged involvement in both Biggie<\/a> and 2Pac\u2019s<\/a> murders, not to mention a whole slew of strong-arming attached to his name, like allegedly firebombing Kid Cudi\u2019s car<\/a>. And if those associations with violence weren\u2019t enough, King Troll 50 Cent has done his fair share of dragging what was left of Combs\u2019s name through the mud whenever possible:<\/p>\n

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The only way Brian Steel and company<\/a> are going to get a neutral jury is if they strike any juror who\u2019s listened to rap music or been on YouTube for the last 10 years from the pool. Good luck with that.<\/p>\n

How Will The Jury Be Chosen For Sean \u2018Diddy\u2019 Combs\u2019 Sex Trafficking Trial?<\/a> [Reuters]<\/p>\n

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s<\/a>. \u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim,\u00a0is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0cwilliams@abovethelaw.com<\/a>\u00a0and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Sean Combs Is Going To Have An Uphill Battle With Finding An Impartial Jury<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Photo by Shareif Ziyadat\/Getty Images) Rappers have a long history of making outlandish claims about how much staying power their careers will have. One of the boldest happened on Biggie\u2019s 1997 hit \u201cMo\u2019 Money Mo\u2019 Problems.\u201d On it, Sean Combs nonchalantly delivered a huge flex: 10 years from now, we\u2019ll still be on top. As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Williams-150x150-v0veGd.jpeg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}