Meredith Foster

Meredith Foster represented the government and conducted examinations that developed testimony about alleged assaults, paid hotel encounters, business records, search evidence, and digital communications. On Day 10, she questioned Kerry Morgan about alleged assaults involving Morgan and Casandra Ventura, alleged control over Ventura, and a later payment to Morgan. Her redirect revisited the assault accounts and whether jealousy arguments preceded the incidents. On Day 11, Foster examined Sharay Dashawn Hayes about paid encounters involving Ventura and Sean Combs, then used redirect to test the basis for his assumption that Ventura enjoyed an encounter and to address her attention to Combs's directions.

Foster also presented documentary and physical-evidence foundations. On Day 18, Sylvia Oken authenticated Beverly Hills Hotel records and identified a guest profile listing Combs as the actual guest. Foster later published admitted device data and a chat to the jury. On Day 27, she examined HSI Special Agent Andre LaMon about items recovered during the Mapleton search, including drugs, devices, personal products, and firearms. On Day 28, she examined Ananya Sankar to authenticate government summary charts of selected communications and digital records.

Her courtroom work included disputes over how testimony and exhibits could be used. On Day 6, Foster argued that prior consistent statements responded to defense implications of financial motive and contradictory messages; the court admitted two exhibits and reserved two others for possible rebuttal. Before and during Morgan's testimony, Foster raised hearsay and foundation issues concerning proposed testimony and defense exhibits. The court excluded a proposed statement attributed to Ventura and permitted other material only subject to the required foundation.

Later disputes focused on communications, summary charts, and search evidence. Foster argued that many objections to chart exhibits concerned hearsay and the scope of the agency exception. She sought guidance on establishing context for firearms photographs without opening a broader line of questioning; the court required foundational context, limited planned cross-examination, and later overruled a firearms-photo objection during LaMon's direct examination. Foster also argued that portions of a message exchange were offered to give context to Combs's statements rather than for their truth. The court admitted some communications while excluding or narrowing others, defining which messages and images could be presented and under what limits.