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Sean “Diddy” Combs is pushing to delay his prison trial, which is at the moment set to start Could 12.
In a courtroom letter obtained by “Additional,” Combs is asking for a two-month extension attributable to new proof offered by the prosecutors in the newest superseding indictment.
The prosecutors need to preserve the trial date as is with no delays.
Within the docs, Combs’ protection stated, “The federal government opposes our proposed affordable adjournment request, despite the fact that it’s nonetheless producing discovery, together with discovery on Depend 4 — a 15-year necessary minimal rely — and has indicated, over our objection, that it’s going to not produce the displays and witness listing due in the present day, or further 3500 materials, whereas this request is pending. Underneath these circumstances, with discovery seemingly incomplete on a 15-year necessary minimal rely, we can’t, in good conscience, go to trial on the scheduled date.”
Diddy’s attorneys argued, “It is a drawback that the federal government has created, but it opposes our affordable request.”
Choose Arun Subramanian will decide on Friday.
Subramanian responded to Diddy’s letter in a aspect notice, writing, “Pending this Friday’s convention, the events ought to proceed on the present schedule, together with making all required disclosures. As for the evidentiary difficulty pertaining to Sufferer-4, which was first delivered to the Court docket’s consideration Monday, the Court docket can even tackle that difficulty at Friday’s convention. If Combs has a renewed utility for that proof that addresses some or all the Authorities’s objections, the Court docket will promptly contemplate it. SO ORDERED.”
Younger Thug’s prison legal professional Brian Metal has additionally filed papers to affix Diddy’s protection workforce, two months after Anthony Ricco filed a movement to withdraw from the rapper’s workforce.
Moreover, Diddy’s workforce filed a movement requesting uncooked footage from the ID documentary “The Fall of Diddy.”
Based on his workforce, two of the federal government’s witnesses took half within the doc.
In a federal indictment from September, Diddy was charged with racketeering, conspiracy, intercourse trafficking, and transportation to have interaction in prostitution.
In January, prosecutors filed an indictment alleging that Combs and his associates used his “energy and status” to intimidate and lure victims “below the pretense of a romantic relationship” earlier than coercing them to have interaction in intercourse acts.
A month later, Diddy was accused of utilizing bodily violence and compelled labor towards his workers in a second superseding indictment.
In a third superseding indictment obtained by “Additional,” Diddy has been charged with two counts of intercourse trafficking, two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution, and one rely of racketeering.
Diddy has denied any wrongdoing.