Anna M. Estevao conducted the defense's multi-day cross-examination and recross-examinations of Casandra Ventura, using messages, recordings, settlement evidence, and later communications to test Ventura's account of the relationship, sexual encounters, alleged violence, and events after the relationship. She also tested the limits of Mylah Morales's observations and presented selected defense messages through exhibits and stipulations.
Defense
Anna M. Estevao
Attorney who represented Sean Combs in the federal criminal case.
Appeared2025 Federal Trial
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Anna M. Estevao conducted the defense's multi-day cross-examination and recross-examinations of Casandra Ventura. On Day 8, she used admitted messages to examine Ventura about her relationship with Sean Combs, freak-offs, drug use, conflicts, recordings, and secrecy. Ventura qualified several defense characterizations, denied wanting recordings, and described keeping the encounters secret.
On Day 9, Estevao developed questions about the chronology of the alleged 2018 rape, Ventura's later contact with Combs, post-relationship communications, treatment, the 2023 settlement, and a canceled tour. She also revisited devices turned over to the government, freak-off videos, and the timing of an anticipated InterContinental settlement.
Estevao also argued several evidentiary issues connected to that examination. On Day 6, she contended that a reported bar-fight statement in a text bore on relationship disputes; the court allowed limited use of that incident while excluding other proposed incidents. Before cross-examination on Day 8, she explained that many defense exhibits had been marked for identification, recollection, or anticipated testimony rather than certain introduction. The court excluded challenged text content under Rule 412, allowed more general relationship questioning subject to limits and possible redactions, and set procedures for resolving further objections.
On Day 13, Estevao cross-examined Mylah Morales about the limits of her observation of a hotel-room incident. Morales confirmed that she did not see inside the bedroom, and Estevao used photographs and questions about media interviews to test the basis and development of Morales's account.
When the defense case began on Day 33, Estevao argued that communications about logistics and sexual encounters were admissible for context rather than for the truth of their contents. The court excluded some proposed messages, allowed others, and admitted a redacted exhibit. Estevao then presented additional defense messages as exhibits and stipulations were introduced.
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