Prosecutors in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-trafficking case wish to introduce a slew of proof of his alleged previous sexual assault — a transfer Combs stated is an unfair bid to placed on a “horror present” for jurors at his upcoming trial.
Southern District of New York feds revealed Monday that they plan to incorporate testimony about “sexual abuse of different victims” at Combs’ trial on expenses of forcing lovers into drug-fueled, days-long intercourse marathons dubbed “Freak-Offs,” and operating Unhealthy Boy Data as a legal enterprise, courtroom filings confirmed.
Jurors ought to get to listen to the brand new proof to fight Combs’ declare that the accusers slated to testify towards him consented to their encounters, prosecutors argued. His trial is about to start Might 5.
The brand new proposed testimony “powerfully establishes that the defendant made no mistake when he coerced different victims into undesirable intercourse,” prosecutors wrote in courtroom papers. “It proves that the defendant meant to take the sexual gratification he wished, no matter consent.”
The feds didn’t disclose any specifics in regards to the prior alleged sexual assaults within the closely redacted courtroom papers. However a separate authorized submitting from Combs’ attorneys stated that a number of of the allegations mirror the surprising allegations lodged towards the jailed hip-hop impresario in civil lawsuits.
Combs, 55, has been accused within the fits of drugging and raping each women and men over a decades-long interval, together with an up-and-coming musician in Los Angeles and a 16-year-old New York Metropolis babysitter. He has denied wrongdoing and pleaded not responsible in his legal case.
Legal professionals for the “I’ll Be Lacking You” rapper urged a Manhattan choose Monday to dam the feds from calling the brand new witnesses, arguing that letting them testify would prejudice the jury towards him.
“The federal government shouldn’t be permitted to pollute the trial with a long time of grime and invite a conviction primarily based on propensity proof with no correct goal by portray Mr. Combs as a foul man who will need to have dedicated the charged crimes,” they wrote.
Combs’ legal professionals added that the allegations, which the feds disclosed to them in a March 7 letter, quantity to a “horror present the federal government seeks to placed on for the jury.”
“These are totally new, untested, uncorroborated, and uninvestigated allegations,” the submitting learn. “All however one of many alleged incidents occurred over twenty years in the past, with the oldest relationship to the Eighties. A few of the allegations are demonstrably false however would nonetheless require an infinite quantity of trial time to disprove.”
Combs’ camp argued that new accusations needs to be barred from his trial as a result of they’re far “worse” than the allegations of coerced intercourse and violent assaults that Combs is already charged with.
However the feds fired again, saying the witnesses already slated to take the stand will give “graphic testimony” about “years’ price of beatings, drug-fueled coercive intercourse marathons, and a number of rapes.”
Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura is predicted to testify towards him, together with three different alleged victims who’ve requested to make use of pseudonyms once they take the stand.
