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The jury will keep deliberating on a racketeering conspiracy charge in the morning after saying there were “unpersuadable opinions on both sides.”
July 1, 2025Updated 5:26 p.m. ET
A jury in Manhattan reached a partial verdict on Tuesday in the federal case against the music mogul Sean Combs after deliberating for more than 12 hours, saying that it was deadlocked on a charge of racketeering conspiracy.
After the jurors alerted the court to the partial verdict, Judge Arun Subramanian, who is presiding over the case, brought them into the courtroom and encouraged them to continue discussing the unresolved count.
“I ask at this time that you keep deliberating,” Judge Subramanian said.
He reread the panel an excerpt from the jury instructions that said “no juror should surrender his or her conscientious beliefs for the purpose of returning a unanimous verdict.”
The jury decided to conclude deliberations for the day and return on Wednesday at 9 a.m.
At about 4:05 p.m. Tuesday, the jury sent a note to the judge saying it had reached a verdict on four of the five counts against Mr. Combs — two counts each of sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution — but was unable to come to a decision on the racketeering charge. The note from the panel said there were jurors “with unpersuadable opinions on both sides.”
The court did not announce what decisions the jury came to on the four counts that it had reached verdicts on.
The racketeering conspiracy charge accuses Mr. Combs — the famed music producer also known as Puff Daddy and Diddy — of running a criminal enterprise with his employees that was responsible for misdeeds over two decades.
