Judge Threatens To Bar Sean "Diddy" Combs From Courtroom If He Continues To Interact With Jurors
Source: Deadline
Judge Threatens To Bar Sean “Diddy” Combs From Courtroom If He Continues To Interact With Jurors
By Erik Pedersen
June 5, 2025 11:02am
Sean “Diddy” Combs might be barred from his own trial, the judge said Thursday in a 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 told defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo that he had been clear that there were to be no theatrics during Combs’ trial on federal charges of racketeering, sex trafficking, transportation to engage in prostitution and more. “I looked and I saw your client looking at the jury and nodding vigorously,” CNN reported the judge telling the attorney. “It is absolutely unacceptable.”
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