NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs is because of plead not responsible Friday to the allegations contained in two superseding indictments that develop the scope of the felony case that’s scheduled for trial Could 5.
One of many new indictments expands the timeframe of allegedly felony conduct and provides two alleged victims.
The second new indictment stated Combs pressured workers to work lengthy hours below risk of bodily and reputational hurt and compelled not less than one worker to interact in intercourse acts with him.
Federal prosecutors on Friday plan to ask the decide to begin the trial in earnest Could 5 and conduct jury choice beforehand. In any other case, “the trial will seemingly final past the July 4th vacation, creating pointless extra challenges in seating a jury,” prosecutors stated.
It is anticipated to take two weeks to seat a jury. The protection prefers beginning jury choice on Could 5 with opening statements Could 13, in line with a letter filed with the courtroom Thursday.
Prosecutors are additionally anticipated to ask the decide to drive protection attorneys to show over proof, saying “the Authorities has but to obtain any discovery from the protection pursuant to its obligations.”
Protection attorneys stated they intend to conform, simply not but.
“As a result of the federal government has the burden of proof, the protection has not made any choices about what proof it would introduce ought to it placed on a case-in-chief, and thus shouldn’t be compelled to reveal supplies to be admitted as a part of the defendant’s case-in-chief at this stage,” the letter stated.
The protection stated it intends to show over objects associated to the video depicting Combs kicking and dragging his former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, in 2016 that had first been obtained by CNN. The protection has insisted the video isn’t all it appears.
“The protection has confirmed, by means of a forensic video evaluation of the CNN footage that the federal government supplied to this Court docket and of the footage supplied by CNN in response to the protection subpoena, that each one CNN video footage was considerably altered in vital respects. This contains masking the time stamp after which altering the video sequence. It additionally contains dashing up the video to make it falsely seem that the actions within the video are happening sooner than they’re. Consequently, the CNN movies don’t pretty and precisely depict the occasions in query,” the protection stated.
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