April 19, 2025
Decide Arun Subramanian advised Combs’ protection staff, ‘It’s unclear why there isn’t ample time to arrange’ throughout his ruling.
Federal Decide Arun Subramanian has denied Sean “Diddy” Combs’ request to delay his intercourse trafficking trial on April 18. As reported by CNN, the New York choose stated there was no purpose to offer the 55-year-old producer’s attorneys two extra months to arrange their protection.
Decide Subramanian affirmed that jury choice for the trial will start as scheduled subsequent month on Could 5.
Decide Subramanian stated through the determination, “It’s unclear why there isn’t ample time to arrange.”
Simply earlier this month, two extra fees had been added to Combs’ case, prompting his attorneys to request extra time to arrange regardless of the prosecutors’s pushback on the concept of loving the trial.
Decide Subramanian continued to make a number of different important rulings relating to the conduction of Diddy’s trial on Friday.
He determined that the alleged victims of Combs could be allowed to testify at trial underneath pseudonyms through the course of the case, apart from Combs’ former girlfriend Cassie Ventura, who’s anticipated to testify. Ventura has been on the forefront of Combs’ case.
Decide Subramanian additionally dominated that a lot of the proof about prior sexual assault allegations in opposition to Combs that weren’t formally charged within the indictment wouldn’t be allowed to be introduced up at trial.
Combs has pleaded not responsible and maintained that he’s harmless within the face of 5 fees of intercourse trafficking, transportation to have interaction in prostitution, and racketeering conspiracy. Prosecutors declare that the conduct associated to the fees happened over the course of twenty years.
As beforehand reported, prosecutors and many ladies have accused Combs and others within the trade of coercing a number of girls to have interaction in intercourse acts with him in opposition to their consent. The incidents by which Combs allegedly subjected these girls to sexual violence underneath the usage of medicine had been known as “Freak Offs.”
Combs reportedly managed his victims by leveraging monetary and profession alternatives to them, and using threats of violence if they didn’t comply.
Authorities investigating the case have alleged that Combs recorded among the intercourse acts.
Diddy is presently being held in federal detention in New York Metropolis following his arrest final September.
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