Jury for Sean 'Diddy' Combs sex trafficking trial to be finalized | Live updates

On the third day of jury selection in the sex trafficking and racketeering trial of Sean Combs, Judge Arun Subramanian finished qualifying 45 prospective jurors.

The last individual added to the pool was a woman who said she had seen the 2016 video of Combs attacking Cassie Ventura in a Los Angeles hotel.

"I thought it was shocking. That was my main thought," the woman said. "I thought it was scary. It was violent."

She told the judge she could be fair.

"I always try my best to remain unbiased until I hear everything," she said.

The judge ordered the parties back to court on Friday at 9 a.m. to make their peremptory strikes. The defense gets 10, the prosecution gets 6.

Court is dark Thursday.

Opening statements are Monday. The prosecution said its first two witnesses would be relatively quick and the third witness would take the remainder of the week. Prosecutors disclosed those first three witnesses to the defense but they have not been made public.

Surveillance video of Sean Combs knocking down, kicking and dragging Cassie Ventura in a Los Angeles hotel convinced a Manhattan middle school teacher that "Mr. Combs would be guilty of domestic violence."

The prospective juror said she is "not really" resigned to believing Combs is violent, but she told the judge, "It would be hard to get new evidence against the video that I saw."

Judge Arun Subramanian asked, "Do you feel like the defendant here has a negative character?" The woman responded "I think in that instance, what I saw on television, that was a bit of bad judgment in that moment. I don't know what led to that. I don't know if there were drugs involved, if he was under the influence."

When Subramanian told the woman the video would be played at trial she said "I would want to hear about the whole story. What happened? What were the factors that came into play?"

Neither side asked for her to be excused and she was allowed to remain in the pool of qualified potential jurors.

A different woman who said she had seen the "Cassie video" on the internet was dismissed. She told the judge "everybody just speculates" about Combs' guilt at the school in the Bronx where she works.

Federal prosecutors questioned whether a different prospective juror could pay attention after the man said he spent last night binge watching "the new Star Wars," had sleep apnea and came to court tired.

"Are you on any kind of medication that would make it hard for you to concentrate?" Subramanian asked. "No, just staying up late and watching Andor," the prospective juror replied.

There was a laugh in the courtroom when the judge asked whether the guy could give up binge watching television for the duration of the trial. The judge kept him in the jury pool.

The judge also kept an attorney who said she once interned in the domestic violence bureau of the Brooklyn district attorney's office but he excused a man who suggested "wealthy celebrity people" believe the law does not apply to them.

"Are you going to be unable to be a juror in this case?" the judge asked. The man responded that jurors would not be deciding whether Combs is guilty but "how much guilty" Combs is.

While the court expects to reach the threshold number of 45 qualified potential jurors on Wednesday, Judge Arun Subramanian decided Wednesday morning the lawyers would not perform their peremptory strikes until Friday.

Assistant United States Attorney Maureen Comey raised concern selected jurors could try to back out of service if they were picked today and opening statements did not start until Monday.

The defense successfully asked that a woman previously qualified for the jury pool be struck for cause because she works at HBO, which produced the Fall of Diddy documentary.

The woman said she was aware of the documentary but did not work on it and only heard "water cooler" talk about the Combs case. Nonetheless, the defense raised concerns about her exposure to the Fall of Diddy since at least one of the individuals featured in it is expected to testify.

Jury selection resumes for a third day with 34 qualified jurors. Once the judge finds 11 more, jury selection will pause until Friday when lawyers will make their peremptory strikes and the jury will be seated.

Lawyers hope to be able to seat a jury in the case against Sean 'Diddy' Combs on Wednesday as the clock is ticking.

This follows day two of jury selection, which came with some frustration. Lawyers are struggling to reach a pool of 45 qualified prospective jurors, which has prompted the judge to warn both sides that they are running out of time.

The attorneys say they currently have 35 prospective jurors. The judge hopes to add 10 more Wednesday to get to the pool of 45 and then select a jury.

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