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There's already a dramatic development as the jury began deliberating in Diddy's federal criminal trial in NYC ... a note was sent by the jury to the judge in the courtroom within 2 hours of when deliberations began.

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00:00Jury has had the Diddy case for only a matter of an hour or two and there is already strife

00:06and we are going to talk about what this means. But short story, the jurors sent a note to the

00:15judge already saying that Juror 25 cannot follow the judge's instructions. I think I know what

00:25that means. It certainly sounds like most of the jury, 11 jurors, agree on what they want to do

00:34here. At least on something. It could be just for one of the counts. It could be for one of the

00:38counts. It could be for all of the counts. It's weird that a couple hours in. That they already

00:45send a note because that means there's no need for them to discuss anything. We know this is what we

00:51want. Feels like this guy's a holdout. Right. And this one person is the holdout. And so now the

00:56question, what does this mean? The only thing I can think of is if there are 11 people on one side,

01:04and again, we're guessing this. Who very quickly know what they want to do. Because if there were

01:07five, why would they single out this one if four others felt the same way? Right. So it seems like

01:13this one guy feels differently from everybody else and the everybody else part that has tried to

01:21convince this one guy. You've got to look at the jury instruction, the judge's instructions. Right.

01:27And the juror is saying, I don't care about the judge's instructions. At least that's the way the

01:33other 11 see it. And it's not that he doesn't understand. We don't think it's that he doesn't

01:37understand the actual instructions. Because what we know of his background from the jury selection

01:45process is a very educated man who's got a PhD in molecular biology. So 51 year old white guy.

01:52It's I don't think there's any. I've so like resisted guessing in this case, because you'd never

02:00know. But it's this feels like to me, it just feels like to me that this guy is saying, because

02:07it's the only thing that makes sense. I don't care what the judge is saying. I am not going to find

02:13Diddy guilty on whatever the charge is, whether it's racketeering or whatever else it is,

02:19because, you know, for example, this feels like a bedroom police prosecution. It could be something

02:25that goes. This is called in the law, if this is the case, jury nullification, where a juror says,

02:31I don't care what the judge is telling me. The right thing to do is something else. That's what

02:38it's feeling like to me. So if you're going to guess here, it's that the 11 are saying convicted

02:43on one of the counts. On something. That's what it feels like to me. So when the note was handed

02:50to the judge, the judge explained what was going on to the prosecutors and to Diddy's defense. They

02:55all came up and had a meeting about this. What Mark Agnifolo, Diddy's co-lead attorney said was,

03:02it's just tell them it's really early, judge. And, you know, they should get back to figuring it out.

03:06If you're the defense and they send that note out this quickly, it's bad news.

03:12It's bad news. Yeah. I mean, look, look, if the jury, if 11 people, if 11 people are saying

03:20one guy is just off the reservation, that can't be for acquittal. It just can't.

03:29I tend to agree with you. There's there's a small chance. I tend to agree with you that

03:33a bunch of people are saying the government just didn't prove their case. And this one man is

03:38saying, I don't care. Diddy's a dangerous person and I don't want him on the streets.

03:42That's possible as well, that he's a holdout for the prosecution. I agree. It's more likely

03:47your scenario, but I could also see them saying, look, he shouldn't be on the streets and I don't

03:51care what the hell Rico says. I'm convicting him no matter what. And by the way, again, like I want

03:56to underscore what Charles is saying, even if we're right, this could be as to one count,

04:01could be as to all counts. We don't know. It's just shocking to me. Look, I covered the OJ Simpson

04:08case and it was a nine month trial and the jury took two hours. So, you know, this is actually a

04:16little more complicated because in OJ, it was just, did he do it or did he not? You know,

04:20or with a reasonable doubt here, there's Rico and there's sex trafficking and there's all this other

04:25stuff. So it's more complicated. It is just weird to me that they're coming in this quickly

04:32and this apparently unified with the exception of one guy. It's kind of stunning to me.

04:40Ali from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. I think Diddy is going to be convicted on the Rico charge,

04:45particularly because he interfered his business and his personal gains for his personal gratification

04:51for sexual gratification. Although this jury question is a bit concerning, I don't know.

04:56Are they hung on the reasonable doubt? Well, the thing is, we don't know what this guy is doing.

05:01Right. We don't know which way he's leaning. I will say, just because the 11 people are saying

05:06he's not following instructions doesn't mean he's going to get kicked off. I mean, the judge is going

05:11to have a huge problem on appeal if he does that. Right. Because then it's going to look like,

05:15you know, the trial was rigged. Right. So the judge is going to be very slow to get rid of this guy.

05:23They may do some clarification, but I would be stunned if at this point, this early on,

05:30the judge boots him. The judge has got to send him back and say, work on this.

05:34Just keep working on it, guys. Yeah.

05:35All right.

05:42All right.

05:43All right.

05:46We'll see you next time.

05:54Bye.

05:57Bye.

05:58Bye.

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