Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs complained of a “deluge of improper pretrial publicity” and requested the choose overseeing his felony case to order potential witnesses to maintain quiet.
Combs’ attorneys, Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos, stated in a letter to the choose that statements by sure people are “undermining Mr. Combs’ proper to a good trial and the integrity of the grand jury proceedings.”
The letter adopted grand jury testimony by a music producer who claimed to have had possession of a videotape of the hip-hop mogul engaged in sexual assaults of celebrities.
Combs is presently imprisoned on expenses of racketeering, intercourse trafficking by drive and transportation to interact in prostitution.
“These tales have unfold quickly via the media and created the impression that such movies exist, which is fake, and that the federal government is definitely crediting his sensational claims, which is profoundly prejudicial,” the letter stated.
Sean Combs arrives for the 2018 Met Gala on Could 7, 2018, on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in New York.
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The protection is asking for a courtroom order gagging potential witnesses and their attorneys.
Prosecutors have objected to such a gag order, partly as a result of plaintiffs in civil litigation in opposition to Combs are exterior the purview of the felony courtroom.
However the protection attorneys have acknowledged, “It makes little sense that civil litigants looking for to capitalize on the felony allegations in opposition to Mr. Combs can nonetheless declare that they don’t seem to be concerned within the felony proceedings.”
Combs has pleaded not responsible to a three-count federal indictment, and his authorized crew has denied that he sexually assaulted any of his civil accusers.
