Diddy Trial Juror Dismissed by Choose Over Residency Subject

Diddy‘s federal jury in NYC is bringing in an alternate … as a result of a juror has simply been dismissed by the choose after listening to greater than three weeks of testimony.

Choose Arun Subramanian dismissed Juror Quantity 6 Monday morning after listening to arguments from the prosecution and the protection relating to the place the juror lives.

Whereas the jury was out of the room Friday, the choose defined he went again to the voir dire portion of the trial and located this juror had mentioned at completely different instances that he lives within the Bronx, at different instances in New Jersey.

The choose added the court docket has alternate jurors for a purpose — and, there is no level in maintaining one round with so many query marks connected.

The alternate juror changing Quantity 6 is a 57-year-old Westchester County resident.

Friday, Diddy’s lawyer Xavier Donaldson stood up and mentioned the court docket was taking an enormous step backward by eliminating a juror of coloration … asking the choose to carry him again into the court docket to provide him the possibility to elucidate.

Throughout the jury choice part, Juror No. 6 revealed he was a 41-year-old Black Hispanic man and works for the Division of Corrections. One of many predominant causes the protection mentioned they did not need him dismissed is as a result of he is one of many few Black jurors.

He is the pinnacle accountant clerk at Edgecombe Correctional Facility — a jail in Higher Manhattan. He informed the court docket he processes payroll for corrections guards.

Juror No. 6 had his fair proportion of authorized points earlier than the trial … suing and later settling with the Port Authority after allegedly injuring his again on an escalator.

He additionally mentioned he was arrested for insurance coverage fraud associated to a physician’s appointment after a automobile accident.