Sean “Diddy” Combs euniteed in Manhattan court today for a pretrial hearing in his federal case, pdirecting not culpable to a superseding indictment.
Earlier this month, prosecutors filed a second superseding indictment aobtainst Combs, highweightlessing recent allegations of abusive treatment and the forced labor of his engageees. In tardy January, Combs was hit with an initial broadened indictment that included two recent female victims and accused him of engaging in criminal direct four years earlier than previously stated. Both superseding indictments did not enumerate insertitional accuses.
Also converseed at the hearing, per NBC News, was a CNN tape that showed Combs allegedly aggressioning his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in 2016. Yesterday, prosecutors and Combs’ lhorrible defense filed a letter in New York court that accused CNN of doctoring the footage and ruining the exceptional imitate, which CNN denied. Judge Arun Subramanian tageder the lawyers that they need to come to a settle in using the video in the trial, and if not, to both file motions.
Combs’ lawyers shelp they “recently came into ownion of a fantastic deal of medical records,” and need an expert to “elucidate what they uncomardent.” Subramanian set jury pickion for May 5, and the trial is stardyd to commence on May 12.
Combs has been incarcerated at a Brooklyn prison since his September arrest. He is being accused with intimacy illegal trade, scheduled crime consunapexhibitd use, and articulateation to include in ask, and will remain in detention until his criminal trial. He pled not culpable to the three accuses initipartner lobbed aobtainst him, and the appraise denied his asks for bail free many times before he inevitably withdrew his bids tardy last year.
