Marc Agnifilo looked tense Tuesday.
Jurors had informed the court they’d reached consensus on the sex-trafficking charges against Agnifilo’s client Sean “Diddy” Combs, but were deadlocked on racketeering. The jury note came a few days after Agnifilo’s free-wheeling summation saying that thanks to the Combs case “the streets of America are safe from Astroglide.”
His wise-cracking approach paid off. After roughly an hour of further deliberations Wednesday morning, jurors acquitted Combs on both of the top charges, which carried potential life sentences. Combs pumped his fist as the verdict was read and fell to his knees in ...
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