Casey Anthony Attorney Breaks Down How to Cross-Examine Cassie in Diddy Trial

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The jury in Diddy's federal sex trafficking trial is hearing highly compelling testimony from Diddy's ex-girlfriend Cassie -- but, a very famous defense attorney has some ideas about how to effectively grill a pregnant woman on the stand.

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00:00So you have a client who repeatedly, brutally beat Cassie. She was forced to do things that

00:14are horrific, where people were, where Diddy was urinating on her, a sex worker urinating

00:20on her. You see the video of all of the horrible beating, and the jury has already seen the

00:28unedited version. The jury is also going to see a freak-off video where Cassie, as she

00:37describes it, is being forced to have sex. And P.S., she's really pregnant. How do you

00:44do this? How do you cross-examine? Is it too silly an answer if I say very carefully? No,

00:52you know, this is an interesting case because it confuses me to no end, to be honest with

00:59you. I look at these charges that are typically geared towards mafioso-type cases and other

01:07high-organized crime-type cases, and then you try to encapsulate the life of a rap star.

01:17And I heard you mention earlier that this whole case rises and falls on the cross-examination

01:24of Cassie, where in fact it really should not. Yeah, we're trying to lay predicate crimes,

01:31but you're in a unique situation here where you have clearly domestic violence. This is

01:38a domestic violence incident that we're referring to. A lot of the things that she's alleging she

01:44was forced to do are somewhat contested. So I think the right way to answer your question directly

01:51would be take those text messages, those witnesses, those specific incidents where she shows the

02:00opposite of what she's saying. So for example, I'm certain there are more, there are plenty of

02:05I love you texts. I'm certain there are plenty of things where she's arguing at him, where she's

02:12showing a certain amount of anger towards him for, could be anything. It could be him coming home

02:18late one day. It could be any number of incidents that would follow these specific incidents to show

02:26that she's not a prisoner. And that I think is the key thing here. Consent as to these acts is going to

02:34be at the heart of her cross-examination. So she ultimately left him. And a lot of the jurors are going

02:40to be wondering, well, why did you do this? Why didn't you just leave? Especially since she left

02:46much later. So I think what the defense should do is build up and show the stories after these

02:52alleged events that kind of offset why it is that she stayed and the fact that she did these things

02:59voluntarily. If you allow this prosecution to run with this bad dude evidence, he's going to get

03:07convicted. But if you stop it and if you confront it and call it out and show to the jurors that,

03:13look, they're not showing that he's a criminal. They're not showing that he's some head of a

03:19criminal organization. They're just showing domestic violence. And they're using this evidence to try and

03:25get you to hate him. So that way, a conviction could be easy.

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