Diddy Found Guilty on 2 Counts, Acquitted of Racketeering, Sex Trafficking
He's only been convicted on counts 3 and 5 ... which are both transportation for the purpose of prostitution, AKA the Mann Act. He faces a maximum sentence of 10 years for each of those counts.
Wednesday morning, about an hour after jurors arrived and went straight into the jury room, the foreman sent a note out to Judge Arun Subramanian telling him they'd reached the unanimous verdict.
All told, the 12-member jury -- 8 men and 4 women -- deliberated for two full days before reaching their final verdict Wednesday morning.
As we reported ... the jury came back Tuesday and said they had a verdict on 4 of the 5 counts, but were unable to come to a verdict on the RICO charge. The judge told them to keep deliberating and on Wednesday they delivered their verdict.
The trial featured nearly 7 weeks of testimony from 34 witnesses ... all called by the prosecutors. Diddy's defense team rested their case without calling a single witness, including Diddy, and instead, simply claimed the government failed to prove its case beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Diddy's still got a potential out here -- there's always the chance he receives a pardon from President Trump, who has already said he'd consider it.
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