Depending on unforeseen circumstances, Sean “Diddy” Combs “the criminal trial for sexual traffic and more will start next month. In addition, the images of a discovery from Warner Bros Fall of Diddy The documents on the very accused interpreter “I will miss” will be authorized as proof, despite the efforts of the media giant of David Zaslav.
With the former mini-mogul present, a federal judge rejected this morning a request for the defense of Combs to postpone the 60-day trial. Almost from the hearing of the hearing, judge Arun Subramanian rejected the sealed decision of the legal team led by Marc Agnifilo- and Teny Geragos on the basis of defense affirmations that the American prosecutor’s office for the South New York District was slow.
Once again, calling for defense complaints nothing new in a case that has been bogged down in procedural battles in recent months since the arrest of Combs in September in a Big Apple hotel, judge Subramanian reprimanded the defense for trying to change the start of May 5 by two months, not two weeks. Noting that most of the last indictment was almost the same as previous deposits, the judge told the defense that he was “clear why there was not enough time to prepare”.
With the selection of the jury which should start the first week of May, the actual opening declarations in the incarcerated and strongly over -revolted combination trial are in pencil for May 12. If he is found guilty of the accusations of racketeering, sex trafficking, transport to engage in prostitution and more, the founder of Bad Boy, 55, will probably be behind bars for the rest of his life.
On Friday, judge Subramanian also rejected an attempted discovery from Warner Bros Discovery to stop making his debut in January.
More specifically, the images that the defense wants to see involves an old Combs and an ex-girlfriend. WBD piloted the journalist’s privilege flag to keep out of the case. However, today, judge subramanian rejected this notion because the two individuals in the images are almost certain to testify in the trial and, consequently, the outings are relevant and eligible.
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Combs has failed three times since its arrest last fall to be released on a deposit of $ 50 million, and is currently hosted in one of the most beautiful units of the Brooklyn metropolitan detention center as a detainee 37452-054. Other accusations have been added by the SDNY politically besieged since the new year, including a replaced indictment to which Combres pleaded for another not guilty plea during a hastily hearing on April 14.
Cassie Ventura and Sean “Diddy” combine in 2018
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Built the combination of aggression and quickly settled ($ 30 million) and more from the victim-1, alias the former girlfriend of Combs Cassie Ventura (who said that she would testify in public hearing at the trial), prosecutors allege that the bands and her aid aids have forced the women and men of sordid marathon called “freak-offs”. The sessions included male and female prostitutes, drug use, threats of violence and imprisonment in hotel rooms where acts were staged and video.
In a file at the end of April 17, the government summed up its file saying: “In more than a decade, the accused submitted several victims to sexual, physical, emotional and verbal abuses. Regarding the victim-1, the victim-2 and the viction-3, the defendant used commercial forms.
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In sudden terms, the federals added: “Freak offs were sexual performance of several days
Opportunities, granting and threatening to retain financial support and by other coercive means,
including monitoring their fate, dictating the appearance of the victims, monitoring their medical
Records, controlling their accommodation and providing them with controlled substances. THE
The government expects the proof to show the following concerning the victim-1, the victim-2 and
Victim-3, as well as other victims. »»
Proclaiming that he did not harm and that all the relations were consensual, the defense exclaimed that the federal authorities use “racist” laws against Combres and seeking “police officer non -compliant sexual activity”. In this vein, on February 24, the defense took a judicial blow on “unconstitutionally large” search mandates which had been used on combs within the framework of the raids of spring 2024 of its houses, devices, digital devices, digital storage, and more.
During an audience today of more than two hours, judge Subramanian ruled that Ventura – victim 1 in the indictment – must hand over all versions of an unpublished memory project that she wrote to Combs lawyers by next Friday, but no correspondence or related banking declarations requested by the Defense. Subramanian will also allow three control witnesses – the victims 2, 3 and 4 in the indictment – to testify using pseudonyms, despite the defense arguments that victims 3 and 4 have spoken publicly in the past of their links with the combs and are probably easily identifiable when they are on the stand. The judge said he was open to the change in his decision if combat lawyers could persuade him that anonymity harms the defense team to focus on their case or challenge the credibility of witnesses.
The judge also declared that he would limit the testimony of a psychological expert hired by prosecutors to testify in general terms of the dynamics of abusive relations, and said that the expert would not be authorized to pronounce the expression “coercive control” during the stand.
Following this, the Subramanian judge rejected a request for defense to throw some of the charges in the indictment, but in a victory for the lawyers of Combs prohibited the testimonies of two witnesses of prosecution which were ready to discuss the abuse presumed by Combs which occurred two decades ago. “These evidence is excluded,” said Subramanian, suitable for defense that testimony was “potentially explosive” and “non -corroborated”.
In addition to the criminal affair, Combs is charged in dozens and dozens of civil shares (mainly Houston’s lawyer, Tony Buzbee) affirming assaults and abuses similar to allegations of sex traffic. He made the pleas not guilty to all, several, several since rejected or died on the legal vineyard.
In addition to the various prior requests at the trial, this week also experienced more muscle added to the Combs defense team.
After a successful passage representing the rapper Young Thug in his gang and racket trial, the lawyer for Atlanta, Brian Steel, joined the defense. Earlier this year, Anthony Ricco left the defense, citing a declaration in court: “Although I have in Sean Combs the high level of legal representation expected by the court, in no case can I continue to serve effectively as council in Sean Combs, in accordance with ABA standards for criminal justice.”
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