Diddy‘s protection crew and federal prosecutors are including 16 extra potential jurors to the pool … and certainly one of them has sturdy emotions concerning the Cassie beating video.

After 2 days of jury choice, there are actually a complete of 35 folks within the jury pool. Right this moment’s alternatives break down like this: 5 white males, 4 Black males, 3 Black girls, 2 white girls, 1 Latino man and 1 girl whose ethnicity is not clear.

Maybe essentially the most attention-grabbing choice amongst that group was a person who instructed the choose he had seen the lodge surveillance video of Diddy attacking Cassie. He mentioned Diddy seemed “indignant and hostile and entitled” in the course of the brutal scene.

That info was not sufficient for the choose to excuse him. Clearly, prosecutors wouldn’t, and did not, take problem with a juror who has these emotions — however the protection didn’t object both.

After all, it is not a slam dunk that the man finally ends up on the 12-person jury. As soon as they’ve picked sufficient folks for the pool of potential jurors … prosecutors and the protection will whittle it right down to 18, together with the 6 alternates. Prosecutors get 6 preemptory challenges, and the protection will get 10 challenges, which they use to take away potential jurors with out displaying trigger.

Value noting — the jury will NOT be sequestered for the trial.