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So glad to see you're back! :) I was surprised at the Diddy verdict - he's an absolutely disgusting human being and the verdict just shows how so much about abuse and its psychological effects on women (and men for that matter) are still not understood. From my understanding, RICO cases are difficult to prove. The Georgia RICO case against Young Thug went much the same way, and was an expensive and lengthy trial. If what you say is true about New Yorkers and trials, it will be interesting to see how the state case goes if all of the backpack evidence is suppressed. Because regardless of what I see in the media, I'm not sending a 27-year-old Ivy League grad who has spent his time in prison writing thankful letters to supporters and has no criminal record or history of violence to prison for decades based off grainy CCTV images and a partial fingerprint. (The gum DNA, if not suppressed, would be trickier.) I think this is potentially the reason for the constant delays with regards to an indictment on the federal case....I don't think they can prove stalking, and if they can't prove stalking, the murder charge is out. The government (and the lobbyists and millionaires that control it) way overplayed their hand here. Granted, without a defense team as impressive at Agnifilo Intrater, a more working-class defendant with a public defender might not have been able to navigate these charges and would have potentially cut a plea deal just to make it go away. I know Luigi's defense fund has raised over a million dollars, but that's a fraction of what these cases will likely end up costing him and his family. Luigi may be considered a folk hero, but he still comes from wealth, and we all know money buys you the best defense out there.

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