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During his six-hour closing arguments, prosecutor Matthew Bogdanos recapped the case against Sean "Puffy" Combs and his co-defendants, Jamal "Shyne" Barrow and Anthony "Wolf" Jones, focusing primarily on the celebrity of the rap mogul, reports PEOPLE. "Mr. Combs, here in court, tells you he's over against the wall, he never really was involved," Bogdanos told the jury. "Why would he do that? Because he's stuck with his grand jury testimony. He's stuck with this like an anchor around his ankle. He doth protest too much and denies what was common knowledge. He simply denied everything. And now he's stuck. That testimony from the grand jury is demonstrably, undeniably, false." Combs, 31, wearing a dark blue pinstripe suit and white tie, read from his small green Bible as Bogdanos argued against him. Continuing his accusations, Bogdanos said, "There is a current that runs through this courtroom, and the current is celebrity. Let me talk about power or, more appropriately in this care, the arrogance of power." He said that everyone in the world recognizes Combs. "Power corrupts," said Bogdanos, "and absolute power corrupts absolutely. When you've been rich and famous for so long, you begin to believe you are above the law. You believe the law doesn't apply to you." Combs has been on trial in New York State Supreme Court for the past seven weeks, accused of bribery and gun possession after a 1999 shooting in a Times Square nightspot. The jury is expected to begin deliberations in the case on Thursday.
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