The Court warned over a sealed-information disclosure and entered Brendan Paul’s immunity order as Special Agent DeLeassa Penland testified about government charts and a March 2016 timeline.
Full day summary
The Court addressed a disclosure of information from a sealed proceeding, warned both sides that further violations could lead to an inquiry and sanctions, and placed responsibility on lead counsel for their teams and clients. The Court also entered an immunity order for Brendan Paul after he stated an intention to invoke his right against self-incrimination.
Special Agent DeLeassa Penland reviewed selected hotel, airline, credit-card, and bank records and the government’s March 2016 timeline, which the Court allowed as a demonstrative over a preserved defense objection. The timeline was used to present messages, calls, photographs, and other records involving Sean Combs, Casandra Ventura, Kristina Khorram, D-Roc, Eddy Garcia, and others from March 4 through March 25, 2016.
On cross-examination, Penland said she had not conducted the underlying investigation and had been assigned to verify the records included in the government’s charts. She said the trial team chose the timeline’s included messages, and that she had not reviewed police or incident reports in preparing it. On redirect, the Court sustained objections to questions about what date gaps in a chart meant. The Court later closed the courtroom for an application reflected in sealed pages and set an end-of-day inquiry of Juror No. 7.