Sean Combs raised both hands with the palms pressed together and gestured his thanks to the jurors as they filed out of Courtroom 26A in Manhattan federal court on Thursday morning. They had just found him not guilty of charges that could have sent him to jail for life.
He then turned to the chair where he had been sitting a few minutes before, leafing through papers whose only value could have been a distraction from what might await him.
The answer had come when the clerk polled the jury; not guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking. He had been convicted of violating the Mann Act, transporting people across state lines for the purpose of prostitution.
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