Diddy’s Lawyers Say Publicity Is Undermining His Right To Fair Trial

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ authorized workforce is making an attempt to do every thing they’ll to degree the enjoying area earlier than going to trial subsequent 12 months.

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Attorneys for the disgraced music mogul have complained to a decide about “improper pretrial publicity,” asking for an order to maintain potential witnesses quiet.

In response to stories from ABC Information, Combs’ attorneys, Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos, submitted a letter to the decide saying that statements by sure people are “undermining Mr. Combs’ proper to a good trial and the integrity of the grand jury proceedings.” This got here following grand jury testimony by a producer who claimed to have been in possession of a videotape of Combs sexually assaulting celebrities.

“These tales have unfold quickly by 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, in response to the outlet.

Due to their claims, the protection is asking for a courtroom order gagging potential witnesses and their attorneys.

Combs is at the moment in jail on expenses of racketeering, intercourse trafficking by power, and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He has pleaded not responsible to a three-count federal indictment, and his authorized workforce has denied that he sexually assaulted any of his civil accusers.

On Monday, Nov. 4, the Dangerous Boy founder is celebrating his fifty fifth birthday from his jail cell. In response to stories from Folks, for his huge day, Combs can have entry to fruit, oatmeal, complete wheat bread, biscuits, “oven brown potatoes” and spreads like jelly and margarine for breakfast. The Federal Bureau of Prisons’ nationwide menu additionally reveals that daily at breakfast, inmates can have “breakfast cake,” however that’s not particular to Diddy’s birthday.

The rapper received’t be capable of have espresso, which is simply served on the weekend.

Monday lunch mains can embody Southwest hen wraps, hen tacos, cheese pizza or three-bean chili. Inmates even have entry to a number of sides like inexperienced beans, rice, salsa or cole slaw. Lunch comes with fruit daily and dessert on some days, however Monday just isn’t certainly one of them, so Combs is out of luck.

Monday dinner menus embody spreads like turkey roast, rice, inexperienced peas, gravy, complete wheat bread and beverage, and hen or tofu fried rice, black beans, carrots, complete wheat bread and beverage. Dessert just isn’t served with dinners, both.

Simply final month, Agnifilo instructed reporters that the meals choices are one of the crucial troublesome components of his being behind bars.

“I feel the meals’s most likely the roughest a part of it,” Agnifilo stated outdoors of a federal courthouse in Manhattan.

Combs’ trial date is about for Might 5, 2025.

 

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