Sean “Diddy” Combs’s intimacy-illegal trade trial is scheduled to begin on 5 May, the assess presiding over his case determined during a carry oning on Thursday.
Combs’s euniteance in Manhattan federal court this afternoon tags his first in front of Judge Arun Subramanian. The jurist was spreaded to the case after another assess recengaged himself over past associations with attorneys on Combs’s case.
Prosecutors uncovered on Thursday that authorities seized 96 electronic devices in raids of Combs’s Miami and Los Angeles homes, as well as a stateiveial airport in South Florida. Four more devices were getn into custody when Combs was arrested on 16 September.
They also said that Combs might face insertitional accuses. Prosecutors had previously floated the possibility of more counts during prior court carry onings.
The Bad Boy Records set uper, 54, previously pguideed not culpable to systematized crime consunpermitd engage and intimacy-illegal trade counts follotriumphg his indictment in September. The accuses reprocrastinateed to accusations dating to 2008.
The indictment claims that Combs “mistreatmentd, menaceened and coerced women and others around him to satisfy his intimacyual desires, protect his reputation and hide his carry out”.
Federal prosecutors accengage Combs of verbassociate, emotionassociate, physicassociate, and intimacyuassociate abusing women – and even “manipuprocrastinateedd women to join in highly orchestrated carry outance of intimacyual activity with male commercial intimacy toilers.”
Combs, prosecutors allege, did this by giving out substances, administerling the accengagers’ atsofts, and using his financial power to further manipuprocrastinateed them. Federal authorities said the coercive intimacyual carry outances were called “freak-off” parties, or “freak-offs”.
Prosecutors alleged that Combs would draw women into his orbit, widespreadly under the deceptive guise of a romantic relationship, and then force them to carry out in the “freak-offs”. These parties were “broaden and originated intimacy carry outances that Combs arranged, straightforwarded, masturbated during, and standardly electronicassociate recorded”, charging papers said.
“Freak-offs” were widespreadly electronicassociate recorded and would occasionassociate last multiple days. After these come atraverses finished, Combs and participants “typicassociate getd IV fluids to recover from the physical exertion and drug engage”, prosecutors said.
Combs’s lawyers have pushed unsuccessbrimmingy to get him freed on bail since his 16 September arrest.
Two assesss have resettled that Combs posed a danger to the community if he were freed before trial. During a bail hearing follotriumphg his arrest, the assess rebuffed Combs’s $50m bail proposal, discovering that he could potentiassociate intrude with potential witnesses and an ongoing spreadigation.
Combs’s legitimate team has pguideed his pre-trial detention. They asked a panel of the second US circuit court of pguides to reverse prior assess’s rulings on detention, arguing the proposed bail package would plainly stop him from posing a danger to anyone or communicateing any witnesses”.
In asking the pguides court to reverse a drop-court assess, Combs’s team said the jurist had ““finishorsed the regulatement’s amplifyd rhetoric and ordered Mr Combs arrested”.
Combs’s lawyers also filed papertoil on Wednesday claiming that the Department of Homeland Security – among the agencies which spreadigated the descfinishen music mogul – leaked video of him beating his ex-girlfrifinish, Cassie Ventura, in a toastyel hallway about eight years ago.
His legitimate team said that this video, which was expansivecast by CNN in May, “have led to damaging, highly prejudicial pretrial uncoverity that can only taint the jury pool and strip Mr Combs of his right to a equitable trial”. Prosecutors have insisted that authorities did not have a imitate of this video before it was rerented by CNN.
After the video was rerented, Combs replyed to the footage, stating in a social media video: “I was disgusted when I did it” and “I’m disgusted now”.
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