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Race will almost inevitably play a part in the prosecution of Diddy, and his defense team is banking on jurors focusing on why prosecutors have invested so much in, as Diddy's lawyers put it, "taking down a successful Black man."

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00:00We have a new one out right now on Tubi.

00:02It is called The Downfall of Diddy,

00:04His Defense, where we are exploring

00:07what is going to be his strategy

00:09when this trial begins in just a couple of months.

00:12And one thing that is very clear

00:15from all the defense experts that we spoke to,

00:19for this documentary, race will absolutely be a big factor

00:24in how they present this case

00:26and the facts that they present,

00:28the facts that they're gonna lay out to the jury.

00:31So here is just a little clip

00:33of some very renowned defense attorneys we spoke to

00:38and why this is, and his attorneys have already said

00:42some stuff where they're alluded to race

00:45and the fact that they feel they're going after Diddy

00:47just because he is a rich, a very successful black man.

00:51It goes deeper than that.

00:53And here is what you can expect when this trial begins.

00:57Race permeates everything in the criminal justice system,

01:01period, end of story.

01:02Race is tremendously important in this case

01:04and anybody that pretends otherwise

01:06is either kidding themselves or just not being honest.

01:08Do you think the defense can point to

01:13the case of Elliot Spitzer,

01:14who was the governor of New York,

01:16who paid $80,000 to prostitutes to cross state lines?

01:22He was not prosecuted.

01:23And this is the same U.S. attorney's office

01:26that is now prosecuting Diddy.

01:28So the argument they would make is,

01:31what's really the difference

01:33other than one guy is black and one guy is white?

01:36I think it's a great argument.

01:37If I'm the defense lawyer, I'm making the same argument.

01:39The government's not beyond propaganda, public relations.

01:44Let's face it, that's their business.

01:45They're better at it than anyone.

01:47I really do believe our government's not beyond

01:50exploiting race when it's convenient for them.

01:54And just looking at the situation,

01:57I think that's what we're looking at.

01:58And whether you agree with that or not,

02:00first off, Mark Garagos, his daughter,

02:03is one of the attorneys for Diddy.

02:04So one of the folks that you interviewed there,

02:06which gives you some insight on where they may be going.

02:09I'm guessing he probably knows something

02:10about where they're gonna go.

02:12But what you guys did in this fascinating documentary,

02:14which I recommend to people,

02:16and again, I don't work here,

02:17so I'm just saying this subjectively, it's really good.

02:19You brought together this mock trial of mock jurors

02:24who watched this whole thing play out,

02:25and it was a diverse jury,

02:27and you could feel the race argument playing out

02:30in real time among the jury.

02:33And a lot of the black jurors reacted differently

02:36than some of the white jurors did,

02:38which was really fascinating to see.

02:39It really is why jury selection in this case is everything,

02:42as it is in many cases.

02:43But here, where you have a case

02:44that is gonna be somewhat fought on the grounds of race,

02:48juries are important.

02:48Now, it is certainly not the case

02:50that all black jurors are gonna go one way

02:51and all white jurors are gonna go another way.

02:53And there are very highly paid jury consultants

02:55that are gonna be helping both sides

02:57to pick those jurors that are best suited for their case.

03:00But there's always compromise in jury selection.

03:02You're gonna get some people

03:03you don't like on both sides.

03:04And obviously, that favors the defense,

03:07because they only need one juror to go their way

03:10in order to avoid a conviction.

03:12But jury selection is everything here,

03:14because I also, in that documentary, Alex,

03:16that you were mentioning,

03:18there are a couple juries there

03:19who are just simply not going to see it

03:21the way that prosecutors want it.

03:23And when the actual jury comes on,

03:24it's the prosecutor's job in jury selection

03:26to avoid those jurors.

03:28Yeah, this is, like you said, Jason,

03:30jury selection will be everything here.

03:31And look, we're not gonna give it all away here,

03:34but the jury, they heard all the facts.

03:39And as you said, Alex,

03:41race clearly was something

03:42that some of them were thinking about.

03:45They did reach a verdict

03:47on all three counts that Diddy is facing.

03:50It's not the slam dunk,

03:52if based on this,

03:53let's just say that this case may not be the slam dunk

03:57that it appears to be to the public right now,

03:59because really, most of what we heard

04:01is what the prosecutors have laid out in the indictment.

04:04We know, obviously, the charges.

04:06We know what they're going at him for.

04:08You don't know necessarily

04:09exactly how it's gonna be defended.

04:11And this is gonna be a very-

04:14And it'll be interesting to see

04:14if there's a black prosecutor on this case.

04:17Although, as we saw in the OJ case,

04:18that doesn't necessarily mean

04:20that race is not gonna be a factor.

04:21Indeed.

04:22Empress from Atlanta, Georgia.

04:24And I have to say that with this Diddy case,

04:28you can't blame a black man for trying.

04:30I don't believe that that's the greatest defense,

04:33but it's really all he has,

04:35considering the circumstances.

04:37Well, if you watch the documentary,

04:39there is more than that.

04:40Yeah, there is more.

04:41It's not only gonna lean on race,

04:44but it is gonna play a factor.

04:46There is a lot that Diddy can start to pick apart here,

04:49especially as it comes to what happened at the freak-offs.

04:53So, all that explored in the documentary,

04:55which is available right now on Tubi.

04:57And that's all to say, though,

04:58there are some troubling things

05:00that Diddy is accused of doing, too.

05:02They gotta explain.

05:03That video, the Cassie beating, is gonna come up,

05:06and they're gonna have to work,

05:08explain that somehow, and remind the jury

05:10that that's not what he's charged with.

05:12But there's no way-

05:13When you see somebody kicking somebody in the head,

05:15it's hard to forget.

05:16Right.

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