The pre-trial sparks proceed to fly forward of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Manhattan trial on intercourse trafficking and racketeering fees. The accused rap mogul’s legal professionals submitted a prolonged questionnaire for potential jurors asking about aversion to intercourse, medicine and violence ruffling the prosecution’s feathers.
In a Friday letter despatched to Choose Arun Subramanian, Combs’ attorneys floated a questionnaire for potential jurors that asks intimately questions on grownup conditions and pictures of real-life bodily assault. The questionnaire shall be distributed to those that responded to their jury summons to slim the pool forward of choice on Could 5.
The character of the questionnaire means that footage of the intercourse and drug-fueled multi-day so-called “freak-off” events prosecutors described of their indictment of Combs shall be proven to the jury at trial. Moreover, the leaked footage of a 2018 incident by which Combs is seen beating and dragging his then-girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie Ventura, at a Los Angeles resort is being contested by the protection, who declare that CNN, which leaked the video, had manipulated the footage earlier than it went to air. Ventura would be the first of 4 witnesses known as by the prosecution.
Prosecutors griped to the decide in regards to the questionnaire in their very own letter, complaining that, at 72 questions, it’s far too lengthy and elements of it are “totally irrelevant to the flexibility to serve on a jury” and are greatest answered as an except for the decide and never forward of the beginning of the trial. The 2 sides had been unable to achieve a consensus on what the potential jurors needs to be requested on questionnaires.
“The protection believes it is vital that we permit potential jurors to write down candidly in regards to the unprecedented and adverse media consideration that they could have been uncovered to, associated to Mr. Combs,” the beleaguered Unhealthy Boy Information founder’s legal professionals wrote.
Along with a number of questions concerning intercourse and violence, one of many queries on the protection workforce’s questionnaire asks if potential jurors have seen any of the documentaries and sequence that characteristic interviews with accusers and others who usually paint Combs in a less-than-flattering gentle together with The Fall of Diddy, Diddy Do It?; The Downfall of Diddy; and Diddy: The Making of a Unhealthy Boy.
Combs is being housed on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn earlier than his trial. He has denied all allegations leveled towards him and has stated that he by no means subjected anybody to sexual abuse.
