Sean “Diddy” Combs is being accused of attempting to impede justice whereas he’s in jail by the prosecutors in his case.
In a current federal court docket submitting in Manhattan on Friday (Nov. 15), Diddy’s accused of attempting to achieve out to potential witnesses and affect the opinion of the general public to affect the potential jurors in his upcoming intercourse trafficking trial.
Prosecutors wrote within the submitting that they reviewed Diddy’s recorded jail calls wherein he requested members of the family to achieve out to potential witnesses and victims to create “narratives” that affect the pool of jurors.
“The defendant has proven repeatedly — even whereas in custody — that he’ll flagrantly and repeatedly flout guidelines with a view to improperly affect the result of his case,” reads the criticism. “The defendant has proven, in different phrases, that he can’t be trusted to abide by guidelines or situations.”
Not solely do prosecutors consider that Diddy needs to blackmail witnesses and victims within the case to both be silent or present useful testimony for him, additionally they consider that he’s been breaking these guidelines from across the time that he was initially detained in September.
Earlier this month, Diddy’s authorized group filed for the choose to “instantly restrain” out of court docket statements from potential witnesses and their attorneys.
Of their submitting, his legal professionals argued that Diddy’s “Proper to a good trial” is being compromised however what they are saying is “improper pretrial publicity.”
“Over the previous a number of days, a grand jury witness and his legal professional have given a number of interviews – together with outdoors the courthouse instantly following his obvious grand jury testimony – making false and outrageous claims, together with that the witness possesses movies of [Diddy] concerned within the sexual assault of celebrities and minors,” legal professionals wrote within the submitting — referencing the claims of Courtney Burgess.
“This grand jury witness claims that he was subpoenaed after he made public statements on social media that he possessed movies of celebrities, together with minors, being sexually assaulted.”
The subpoena additionally comes on the heels of his legal professional’s statements that she had been requested to ‘store a specific video’ and speak to a celeb ‘within the video to see in the event that they have been fascinated by buying the video earlier than it turned public data.’”
Again in September, Diddy was charged with racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking by drive, fraud, or coercion, and transportation for functions of prostitution. If convicted as charged, each the racketeering and intercourse trafficking counts carry potential most sentences of life behind bars. Diddy has pleaded not responsible to those expenses. He’s presently going through greater than 120 new lawsuits filed within the time since, as properly.
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