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Puffy trial jury recesses for day

Combs arrives at court in New York Wednesday morning.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The jury hearing the case against rapper Sean "Puffy" Combs and two co-defendants for a 1999 shooting incident in a Times Square-area nightclub recessed late Wednesday without reaching a verdict.

Combs and bodyguard Anthony "Wolf" Jones are charged with gun possession and bribery in connection with the December 27, 1999, shooting at Club New York, a Times Square nightclub, that left three people wounded. Neither is charged with shooting anyone.

Another co-defendant, rapper Jamaal "Shyne" Barrow, is charged with attempted murder and assault.

Singer Jennifer Lopez, who was Combs' girlfriend at the time, was also at the club but was not charged.

The case was presented to the jury Wednesday morning after six weeks of testimony. The seven men and five women on the panel will be sequestered during the deliberations.

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In his closing arguments Tuesday, Assistant District Attorney Matthew Bogdano, urged the jury to consider the facts of the case, not the defendant's celebrity.

"There are no greats at that table," he said referring to the defendants, "just men who commit crimes."

"This is not the Puffy trial. It's not the Jennifer Lopez trial. We forget ... it's about three people who got shot in a club," Bogdanos said.

Bogdanos reminded the jury that five different witnesses testified seeing Combs with a gun on the night of the shooting.

"All five people can't be mistaken," he said.

During the trial, prosecutors alleged that Combs tossed a gun out of his Lincoln Navigator during a police chase. They said Combs later offered his driver, Wardel Fenderson, $50,000 to say that the second gun -- belonging to Combs and found under a seat in the Navigator -- belonged to him.

Combs denied having a gun that night and said he did not fire a gun inside the nightclub.

His attorneys have said the gun found on the street has nothing to do with Combs, and they deny that Combs tried to bribe Fenderson.

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