The judge supervising the federal trial of Sean Combs on Wednesday rejected a request for the defense request for a trial, after having argued that the prosecutors had unfairly suggested by the testimony that Mr. Combras was responsible for the destruction of the evidence of fingerprints.
The defense opposed a interrogation line on Wednesday morning during the testimony of a fire fire inspector from Los Angeles. Answering the prosecutor’s questions, the inspector, launches Jimenez, confirmed that the fingerprint cards collected by the police of an intrusion prior to the home of Scott Mescudi (the rapper known as Kid Cudi) had been destroyed, and could not therefore be compared to the fingerprints found weeks later when Mr. Mescudi’s car was destroyed by Molotov Cocktail.
Apart from the presence of jurors, Mr. Combs’ lawyers argued that these questions suggested to the jury that Mr. Combs was in a way responsible for the destruction of fingerprint cards. The accusation replied that their questions were fully appropriate. The judge, Arun Subramanian, judged that the testimony had struck the file, but the lawyers of Mr. Combs said that it was too late.
“There is no way to denigrate this bell,” said Alexandra Shapiro, member of Mr. Combs’ defense team who is an experienced appeal lawyer.
Judge Subramanian said that there had been no testimony to the witness who was detrimental to Mr. Combross. When the jurors returned, the judge told them to ignore the exchange on fingerprint cards.
Police and fire officials testified earlier in the day of an intrusion and a fire fire at the home of Los Angeles of Scott Mescudi (rapper Kid Cudi), who Last week described Be at the center of the jealous rage of the musical magnate.
