Mike Marza and ABC News Legal Contributor Bernarda Villalona recap a big day in the trial of Sean 'Diddy' Combs. 

Federal prosecutors are no longer including attempted kidnapping and attempted arson as underlying crimes in the alleged racketeering conspiracy charge against Sean Combs.

Prosecutors disclosed in a letter to Judge Arun Subramanian that they would “no longer proceed on these theories” when they deliberated closing arguments, which are scheduled to begin Thursday.

Instead, prosecutors signaled that they would push sex trafficking and forced labor as primary predicate acts that the jury could find to convict Combs of racketeering conspiracy.


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